SubjectivityRoutledge, 20 feb. 2004 - 160 pagini Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall: * examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism, feminism and queer theory Examining some of the most exciting issues confronting cultural critics and readers today, Subjectivity is the essential introduction to a fraught but crucial critical term and a challenge to the way we define our selves. |
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... Race and Postcoloniality no 4 Postmodernism and the Question of Agency Il8 Haraway and Cyborg Subjectivity 1l8 Subjectivities 124 GLOSSARY 131 BIBLIOGRAPHY 135 INDEX 142 SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE The New Critical Idiom is a series.
... agency-driven) mode of defining our relationships to each other, one in which we are laden with the responsibility for "making something" of ourselves. He argues in The Horizontal Society that we live in an age "in which old forms and ...
... agency," a controversial topic that has been at the center of discussions of subjectivity for centuries, and one that will never be wholly put to rest, even as it remains compelling. For in probing agency, we are, in effect, tackling ...
... agency in the creation and maintenance of the "self are ones that were not always asked if we look back through many centuries of time. To be sure, human beings, for as long as we have written records of our thoughts and creative output ...
... agency very different from the ones that we will explore later, for as Taylor notes, modern identity arises in the "replacement of this understanding of the dominance of reason by another, more readily accessible to our minds, in which ...
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The Early Modern Era and Enlightenment | 16 |
The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | 32 |
The Politics of Identity | 78 |
Postmodernism and the Question of Agency | 118 |
GLOSSARY | 131 |
INDEX | 142 |