Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ó Fathaigh, Cillian; Rae, Gavin

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume shows that the question of the subject is a key one for many poststructuralist thinkers, that they are aware of the problematic status of agency that arises from their decentering of the foundational subject, and that they offer heterogeneous responses to it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040256435
• Artikelnr.: 72300893

Autorenporträt

Cillian Ó Fathaigh is an Assistant Professor and Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Actions Fellow in Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland. He is the co-editor of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (2022), and his work has been published in Angelaki, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, and Derrida Today. Gavin Rae is an Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His most recent books are Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (2024) and Poststructuralist Agency (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Agency and Poststructuralism Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Gavin Rae
Part I: Ethics 1. The Immanence of Desire: Subjectivity and Agency in
Anti-Oedipus Sean Bowden 2. Agency and the Imaginary: Lacan, Irigaray,
Castoriadis Gavin Rae 3. What Can Subjects Do? Judith Butler's Notion of
Agency Emma Ingala 4. Reading Agency in Suspension: Derrida and the
Undecideable Lisa Foran Part II: History and Aesthetics 5. "Something Will
Turn Up": Why Derrida Remains Trapped in Modernity Sacha Golob 6. What is
an Event to a Subject? What is a Subject to an Event? Musical Folds
Michael Székely Part III: Politics 7. Foucault's Agentive Discharge Luke
Collison 8. Political Plasticity: Catherine Malabou's Anarchic Agents
Cillian Ó Fathaigh