Pamela Sue Anderson

2.30-4.30pm  | Thursday 4 March 2010
10 Merton Street, University of Oxford

Speaker
Pamela Sue Anderson, Reader in Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford and Fellow in Philosophy and Ethics, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford in conversation with Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, Professor of Social Theory, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London

In Giving An Account of Oneself, Judith Butler proposes a new ethical practice both responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in the opacity of the human subject. Seidler and Anderson will discuss whether ‘the relationality that conditions and binds [the] self’ – who fails, despite her best efforts, to make herself fully accountable ‘to you’ – is, as Butler says, ‘an indispensable resource for ethics’.