Poststructuralist Agency

The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory

Gavin Rae

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Edinburgh University Press
23 March 2022

Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Social & political philosophy

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.

By: Gavin Rae
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781474459365
ISBN 10: 1474459366
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 23 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gavin Rae, Senior Visiting Research Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Reviews for Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory

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 University""