Poststructuralist Agency

The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory

AvGavin Rae

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474459358

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Gavin Rae is Associate Professor (accredited to 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, psychoanalytic theory, ontology, and ethics. Besides over sixty published articles and book chapters, he is the author of eight monographs, the most recent of which are The Politics of Reason: A Postfoundational Approach (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), and Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth Century Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He has also co-edited six volumes, the most recent of which are Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism (Routledge, 2025—with Cillian Ó Fathaigh), Philosophy across Borders (Routledge, 2025—with Emma Ingala), and Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (Routledge, 2021—with Emma Ingala).

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: Decentring the Subject1. Deleuze, Differential Ontology and Subjectivity2. Derrida’s Différance: Deconstruction and the Sexuality of Subjectivity3. Foucault I: Power and the Subject4. Foucault II: Normativity, Ethics and the SelfPart II: Turning to the Psyche5. Butler on the Subjection of Gendered Agency6. Lacan on the Unconscious Subject: From the Social to the Symbolic7. Kristeva on the Subject of Revolt: The Symbolic and the Semiotic8. Castoriadis, Agency and the Socialised IndividualConclusionBibliography, Index