Theorising Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression
(Part of the Literature, Culture, Theory Series)
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This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: how to theorise the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a dialogical agent. By engaging with a wide range of leading political, philosophical, and critical thinkers - Jameson, Habermas, MacIntyre, Rorty, Taylor, Benhabib, and West are all critiqued - Meili Steele proposes linking language with human agency in order to develop an alternative textual and ethical theory of the subject. Steele shows how constructivist theories of agency fail to account for the ethical implications of the supposed contingency of all contexts, and how dialogical theorists fail to acknowledge the insight of postmodern critiques. Developing this theory through readings of texts that address issues of identity, politics, race, and feminist theory, Steele illustrates that we do not have to choose between an idealised or demonised modernity.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521576792
ISBN13:9780521576796
Release Date:May 1997
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:234 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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