Poststructuralist Agency
The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory
Published on 14. February 2020
297 pages
978-1-4744-5937-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Tile Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 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
