Gavin Rae

Poststructuralist Agency (eBook, PDF)

The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. First, Rae shows how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault. He then demonstrates that it is with those poststructuralists associated with and influenced by Lacanian psychoanalysis that this issue most clearly comes to the fore. He goes on to reveal that the conceptual schema of Cornelius Castoriadis best explains how the founded subject is capable of agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474459389
• Artikelnr.: 72428970

Autorenporträt

Gavin Rae is Senior Visiting Research Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Critiquing Sovereign Violence (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emanuel Levinas (Palgrave, 2016), Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze: A Comparative Analysis (Palgrave, 2014) and Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre and the Alienation of Human Being (Palgrave, 2011). He is co-editor of Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) and The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics (Routledge, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Decentring the Subject
1. Deleuze, Differential Ontology, and Subjectivity
2. Derrida's Différance: Deconstruction and the Sexuality of Subjectivity
3. Foucault I: Power and the Subject
4. Foucault II: Normativity, Ethics, and the Self
Part II: Turning to the Psyche
5 .Butler on the Subjection of Gendered Agency
6. Lacan on the Unconscious Subject: From the Social to the Symbolic
7. Kristeva on the Subject of Revolt: The Symbolic and the Semiotic
8. Castoriadis, Agency, and the Socialised Individual
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.