Discerning The Subject: Volume 55 (Theory and History of Literature, Band 55)

Name: Discerning The Subject: Volume 55 (Theory and History of Literature, Band 55)
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By Smith, Dr. Paul

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Large 8vo. xxxv, 185 (2) pp, Foreword: The Resistance in Theory by John Mowitt, acknowledgments, preface, note on terminology, 1. Ideology; 2. Text; 3. Deconstruction 4. Resistance; 5. Unconscious; 6. Paranoia; 7. Autobiography; 8. Semiotica; 9. Feminism; 10. Responsibilities; notes, references, index. First Edition, 1988. Wraps. ``This book offers a rigorous, lucid critique of the debates on the status of the 'subject'---debates that take in but range far beyond the political writings of Althusser, the psychoanalytic writings of Lacan, and the philosophical work of Derrida. What begins as a thorough analysis of the ways various disciplines theorize the 'subjec', quickly develops into a provocative consideration of the relations among critical theory, human agency, and social resistance. The author argue that many theorists of the 'subject' routinely deny the possibility of human agency and the 'subject's' resistance to the pressure of the ideological, and rejects many of the currently fashionable notions of subjectivity---including the poststructuralist 'decentered subject'---as flawed or incomplete and calls instead for a view of the 'subject' which will allow for genuine political and social action."

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 224
Release Date:: 1988-01-01
Publication Date:: 1988-01-01
Publisher:: University of Minnesota Press
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0816616396
Weight:: 318 g

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