POSTSTRUCTURALIST AGENCY

POSTSTRUCTURALIST AGENCY: the subject in twentieth-century theory

by Rae, Gavin

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Does the poststructuralist decentring of the foundational subject permit a coherent account of agency? Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a prime 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 clearl…

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  • Full title :POSTSTRUCTURALIST AGENCY : the subject in twentieth-century theory.

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Does the poststructuralist decentring of the foundational subject permit a coherent account of agency? Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a prime 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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  • Publication Date:2020.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 volume ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1474459358, 9781474459358
  • oclc:on1154780618
  • LC Classification:B
  • Dewey Decimal:100

Subjects

post-structuralism Poststructuralism Poststructuralisme

Writers

Rae, Gavin

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