The Tremulous Private Body - Essays on Subjection (Paperback, Second Edition)

This ambitious and immensely readable study helped establish Francis Barker's reputation on both sides of the Atlantic, . Now available in paperback with a revised preface from the author, The Tremulous Private Body studies several seventeenth-century texts to document the birth of the modern, self-possessed subject and the consequent waning of the modern body. Francis Barker draws on the theoretical work of Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan and the Marxism of Louis Althusser to interpret the works of Pepys, Shakespeare, Milton, Descartes, Marvell, and Rembrandt. The Tremulous Private Body engages the central themes of postmodernism--discourse, sexuality, textuality, and power--but it is not a poststructuralist work, rejecting many of the positions characteristic of poststructuralism, particularly its tendency to depoliticize discourse. The book's intense and challenging style weaves together its contemporary theoretical preoccupations and its reflection on historical material into a single, penetrating analysis of the structure of modern culture. It suggests how discourse today is complicit in the wider forms of dominance that define our world.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
Release date:	October 1995
First published:	December 1995
Authors:	Francis Barker
Dimensions:	133 x 229 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	120
Edition:	Second Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-06552-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Promotions > Loot Warehouse Clearance Sale > Books
LSN:	0-472-06552-1
Barcode:	9780472065523

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