Discerning the Subject (Theory and History of Literature) (Volume 55) - Softcover

Smith, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816616396 ISBN 13: 9780816616398

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1988

Synopsis

Large 8vo. xxxv, 185 (2) pp, Foreword: The Resistance in Theory by John Mowitt, acknowledgments, preface, note on terminology, 1. Ideology; 2. Text; 3. Deconstruction 4. Resistance; 5. Unconscious; 6. Paranoia; 7. Autobiography; 8. Semiotica; 9. Feminism; 10. Responsibilities; notes, references, index. First Edition, 1988. Wraps. ``This book offers a rigorous, lucid critique of the debates on the status of the 'subject'---debates that take in but range far beyond the political writings of Althusser, the psychoanalytic writings of Lacan, and the philosophical work of Derrida. What begins as a thorough analysis of the ways various disciplines theorize the 'subjec', quickly develops into a provocative consideration of the relations among critical theory, human agency, and social resistance. The author argue that many theorists of the 'subject' routinely deny the possibility of human agency and the 'subject's' resistance to the pressure of the ideological, and rejects many of the currently

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0816616396
• ISBN 13: 9780816616398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224