Poststructuralist agency : the subject in twentieth-century theory / Gavin Rae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rae, Gavin (Gavin John), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poststructuralism.

Agent (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. He shows how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, and find the best explanation of agency for the founded subject in the work of Castoriadis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Introduction

Part I Decentring the Subject

CHAPTER 1 Deleuze, Differential Ontology and Subjectivity

CHAPTER 2 Derrida’s Différance: Deconstruction and the Sexuality of Subjectivity

CHAPTER 3 Foucault I: Power and the Subject

CHAPTER 4 Foucault II: Normativity, Ethics and the Self

Part II Turning to the Psyche

CHAPTER 5 Butler on the Subjection of Gendered Agency

CHAPTER 6 Lacan on the Unconscious Subject: From the Social to the Symbolic

CHAPTER 7 Kristeva on the Subject of Revolt: The Symbolic and the Semiotic

CHAPTER 8 Castoriadis, Agency and the Socialised Individual

Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

ISBN:

1-4744-5938-2

OCLC:

1312726644