Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth-century Theory - Brossura

Rae, Gavin

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ISBN 10: 1474459366 ISBN 13: 9781474459365

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2021

Riassunto

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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Gavin Rae is Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His research interests lie in nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, where he works at the intersection of socio-political philosophy, ontology, and ethics. Besides over fifty published articles and book chapters, he is the author of six monographs, the most recent of which are Poststructuralist Agency (Edinburgh University Press, 2020); Critiquing Sovereign Violence (Edinburgh University Press, 2019); Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 2019); and the co-editor of six edited collections, the most recent of which are Transformation in Contemporary French Theory, edited with Emma Ingala and Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming), Philosophy across Borders, with Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Routledge, forthcoming), and Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism, with Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Routledge, forthcoming). He is currently the Principal Investigator for a major four-year project funded by the Spanish Government titled “The Politics of Reason.”

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‘Poststructuralist Agency discusses how poststructuralist subject is not merely a void, offering no subjectivity, no agency and thus no politics but rather offers all of this in a decentered and contingent form. Many books skirt around poststructuralism's positive formulations but Gavin Rae’s book does the hard work of showing just how this actually happens.‘James R. Martel, San Francisco State UniversityDoes the poststructuralist decentring of the foundational subject permit a coherent account of agency?Gavin Rae offers us a new evaluation of poststructuralist thought. This involves a re-conception of the embodied subject as a continual process within and defined by ever-changing configurations of the social, the symbolic and the psychic.He shows that the question of the subject is central for poststructuralist thinkers, that they are aware of the problematic status of agency that arises from their decentring of the subject and that they offer heterogeneous solutions to resolve it.First, showing how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, Rae subsequently 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.Gavin Rae is Senior Visiting Research Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.Cover image: Torso (Figure with Pink Face)', Kazimir Malevich 1928–1932 © Heritage Images / Fine Art Images / akg-imagesCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-5935-8Barcode

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474459366
• ISBN 13: 9781474459365
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
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