Post-Modernism and the Ethical Subject

by Gabriel, Barbara; Ilcan, Suzan

• ISBN13: 9780773527010
• ISBN10: 077352701X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-31
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

In a historical moment when the more-than-century-old shock of the modern has given way to global and trans-national shifts and cultural displacements, what new ethical demands are created? Writing across the disciplines of anthropology, literature, museology, film, and sociology, contributors to this groundbreaking volume confront a world fraught with new crises and instabilities. The ethical claims they discuss mobilize new relations between ourselves and others as well as new cultural practices, including new forms and genres.Postmodernism and the Ethical Subjectpoints us to new ways of thinking that raise the ethical stakes of our historical moment.

Author Biography

Deborah Burrett Independent scholar, Toronto Brenda Carr Department of English, Carleton University David L. Clark Department of English, McMaster University Bina Freiwald Department of English, Concordia University Barbara Gabriel School Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University Suzan Ilcan Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor Phyllis Lambert Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal Francesco Loriggio School of Humanities, Carleton University Daniel O'Connor Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor Lynne Phillips Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor Ruth Phillips School Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University Barry Rutland Adjunct professor, Carleton University Leandro Urbina Chilean-Canadian novelist, Washington, DC

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
PART 1: INTRODUCTORY
"Writing against the Ruins": Towards a Postmodern Ethics of Memory	3	(22)
BARBARA GABRIEL
From Modernity to Postmodernity	25	(16)
SUZAN ILCAN
PART 2: SPECTRES OF THE MODERN: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS
On Being "the Last Kantian in Nazi Germany": Dwelling with Animals after Levinas	41	(34)
DAVID L. CLARK
The Transject: The Ethical Subject of Postmodernity	75	(16)
BARRY RUTLAND
PART 3: MUSEUMS AND MEMORY
Salvador Allende and the Construction of a Harmless Icon: Museums and Memory	91	(8)
LEANDRO URBINA
Commemoration/(de)Celebration: Super-Shows and the Decolonization of Canadian Museums, 1967-92	99	(26)
RUTH PHILLIPS
"Into the Heart of Africa": Curatorship, Controversy, and Situated Knowledges	125	(24)
DEBORAH BURRETT
PART 4: VISUAL CULTURE
The Unbearable Strangeness of Being: Edgar Reitz's film-chronicle Heimat	149	(54)
BARBARA GABRIEL
Devastation of the Hapless Structure: Architecture and Ethics	203	(4)
PHYLLIS LAMBERT
Beyond the Frame: Ethical Encounters and Morality in Deleuze's Cinematic Theory	207	(20)
DANIEL O'CONNOR
PART 5: RELATIONS WITH THE OTHER
The Marginal Other: Modern Figures and Ethical Dialogues	227	(27)
SUZAN ILCAN
Changing Health Moralities in the Tropics: Ethics and the Other	254	(19)
LYNNE PHILLIPS
PART 6: STYLES AND GENRES OF THE ETHICAL SUBJECT
Covering Their Familiar Ways with Another Culture: Minnie Aodla Freeman's Life among the Qallunaat and the Ethics of Subjectivity	273	(29)
BINA FREIWALD
"A Network of Relations": Interdependene in Bronwen Wallace's Talking Lyric	302	(31)
BRENDA CARR
Memory, identity, and Redemption. Notes on the Cuit re of Autobiography	333
FRANESCO LORIGGIO