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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, Ben...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| spelling | Steele, Meili, 1949- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjr97wJC8Dp3PJp7DcBkjC http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96055997 Theorizing textual subjects : agency and oppression / Meili Steele. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. 1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Literature, culture, theory ; 21 Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-223) and index. Stories of oppression and appeals to freedom -- Language, ethics, and subjectivity in the liberal/communitarian debate -- Theorizing narratives of agency and subjection -- Truth, beauty, and goodness in James's The Ambassadors -- The subject of democracy in the work of Ralph Ellison. Print version record. 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. English. Criticism. Critical theory. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002456 Critique. Théorie critique. critical theories (dialectical critiques) aat critical theory (sociological concept) aat LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Critical theory fast Criticism fast Literatuurtheorie. gtt Subjectiviteit. (NL-LeOCL)078680271 gtt Ethiek. gtt Electronic books. has work: Theorizing textual subjects (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFyVMxMFd63BW7FXptFvpd https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Steele, Meili, 1949- Theorizing textual subjects. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521571855 (DLC) 96026944 (OCoLC)34990093 Literature, culture, theory ; 21. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92029674 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55678 Volltext |
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