Subjectivity

Informationen zum Autor Donald Hall Klappentext "Subjectivity" explores the history of theories of selfhood! from the classical era to the present and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. It examines all the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the 20th and 21st centuries. Zusammenfassung This explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical Era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Preface Introduction What is Subjectivity? Classical and Pre-Modern Identities 1. Descartes and the "I" Locke, Kant and the "We" 2. The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Slavery and Subjectives Wollstonecraft and Early Modren Feminist Subjectivity Marx and Class Subjectivity Freud and the Rise of the Social Sciences Nietzsche and the Existentialists 3. The Politics of Identity Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and Discourse Theory The Politics of Gender and Sexuality, Race and Postcoloniality 4. Postmodernism and the Question of Agency Haraway and Cyborg Subjectivity Subjectives Glossary Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Donald Hall, Donald E. Hall, Donald E. (West Virginia University Hall, Hall Donald
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2004
• EAN: 9780415287616
• ISBN: 978-0-415-28761-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: The New Critical Idiom; The New Critical Idiom
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Sozialtheorie, Literaturtheorie, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Literary studies: general, Literary theory