Poststructuralist Agency : : The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory / / Gavin Rae.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Rae, Gavin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; Introduction --; Part I Decentring the Subject --; CHAPTER 1 Deleuze, Differential Ontology and Subjectivity --; CHAPTER 2 Derrida’s Différance: Deconstruction and the Sexuality of Subjectivity --; CHAPTER 3 Foucault I: Power and the Subject --; CHAPTER 4 Foucault II: Normativity, Ethics and the Self --; Part II Turning to the Psyche --; CHAPTER 5 Butler on the Subjection of Gendered Agency --; CHAPTER 6 Lacan on the Unconscious Subject: From the Social to the Symbolic --; CHAPTER 7 Kristeva on the Subject of Revolt: The Symbolic and the Semiotic --; CHAPTER 8 Castoriadis, Agency and the Socialised Individual --; Conclusion --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474459389; 9783110780413
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474459389
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gavin Rae.

Does the poststructuralist decentring of the foundational subject permit a coherent account of agency?Analyses poststructuralist thinking on 'the subject' in detail, tying it to the often-ignored question of agencyExpands the scope of ‘poststructuralism’ beyond Deleuze, Derrida, and Foucault by also engaging with psychoanalytically orientated poststructuralists including Butler, Castoriadis, Kristeva and Lacan Draws out the complicated link between poststructuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysisGavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a prime 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.