What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice?one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject. Butler takes as her starting point one?s ability to answer the questions ?What have I done?? and ?What ought I to do?? She shows that these question can be answered only by asking a prior question, ?Who is this ?I? who is under an obligation to give an account of itself and to act in certain ways?? Because I find that I cannot give an account of myself without accounting for the social conditions under which I emerge, ethical reflection requires a turn to social theory. In three powerfully crafted and lucidly written chapters, Butler demonstrates how difficult it is to give an account of oneself, and how this lack of self-transparency...
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