Subjective agency and poststructuralism / edited by Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Gavin Rae.
| Other author | Ó Fathaigh, Cillian, 1992- |
| Other author | Rae, Gavin, 1982- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2025. |
| Description | vi, 205 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Partial contents | What can subjects do? Judith Butler's notion of agency / Emma Ingala -- "Something will turn up": why Derrida remains trapped in modernity / Sacha Golob -- Foucault's agentive discharge / Luke Collison. |
| Abstract | "Poststructuralism has long been acknowledged to offer a radical critique of the foundational subject as a precursor to affirming a constituted subject. Its detractors have however held that the resultant position cannot offer a coherent account of agency (strong version) or, alternatively, that while it may be able to account for non-subjective agency it is unable to develop a coherent explanation for subjective agency (weak version). Somewhat strangely, this issue has been largely ignored by commentators predisposed to poststructuralist thought. In contrast, this volume focuses on the works of Judith Butler, Cornelius Castoriadis, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Catherine Malabou, to show that the question of the subject is a key one for many poststructuralist thinkers, that they are aware of the problematic status of agency that arises from their decentering of the foundational subject, and that they offer heterogeneous responses to it. Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism will therefore be an invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students interested in philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, critical theory, history of ideas, feminist theory, and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024030909 |
| ISBN | 9781032364292 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 9781032364308 (pbk) |
| ISBN | (ebk) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |