Theorising Textual Subjects : Agency and Oppression
by
Meili Steele
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Literature, Culture, Theory
ISBN-10
0521571855
ISBN-13
9780521571852
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 1st, 1997
Print length
234 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theory
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This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: the attempts to theorise the subject as both a construct of discourse and a dialogical agent. Through wide reference to leading political, philosophical, and critical thinkers, Meili Steele maps new ways of confronting the problem of how politics and ethics are deployed in imaginative narratives.
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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