Disputed subjects : essays on psychoanalysis, politics, and philosophy / Jane Flax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flax, Jane.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory Series

Routledge library editions: feminist theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Psychoanalysis and feminism.

Postmodernism.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Incorporating autobiography as well as reflections on relations between mothers and daughters, psychoanalysis, feminist theorizing, race, and modernist political theories and philosophies, renowned feminist theorist Jane Flax brings together eight of her most recent essays in Disputed Subjects. 'Indisputably required reading ... Lively, sophisticated, and challenging discussions at the crucial intersection of feminist, psychoanalytic, and political ideas. Jane Flax allows her own multiple and conflicting identities into open dialogue, and the result is a promontory on the postmodern landscape.' - Kenneth J. Gergen 'Jane Flax is one of the most challenging women writing today ... It is the well-informed voice of sanity, balance and courage.' - Phyllis Grosskurth 'Jane Flax's bold new book challenges orthodoxies in feminism, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. By questioning the questions that have been taken to define these fields, she demonstrates once again the originality of her thinking.' - Alison M. Jaggar.

Contents:

Intro

DISPUTED SUBJECTS Essays on Psychoanalysis, politics and philosophy

Copyright

Disputed Essays on Psychoanalysis, Subjects Politics and Philosophy

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

One Overview/Reflections

1. Minerva's Owl: Fragments of a Thinking Life

Two Psychoanalysis

2. Final Analysis: Can Psychoanalysis Survive in the Postmodern West?

3. Forgotten Forms of Close Combat: Mothers and Daughters Revisited

Three Politics and philosophy

4. Is Enlightenment Emancipatory?

5. Multiples: On the Contemporary Politics of Subjectivity

6. The Play of Justice

Four In-conclusion

7. The End of Innocence

Endnotes

Author Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Flax, Jane Disputed Subjects (RLE Feminist Theory)

ISBN:

9781136194139

OCLC:

821175953