ABSTRACT
In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |37 pages
The Sensuality of the Good
part |46 pages
Correspondences: The Attunement of Self and Other
part |81 pages
Dissonance and Social Struggle