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Theorising Textual Subjects - Agency and Oppression (Hardcover, New)
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Theorising Textual Subjects - Agency and Oppression (Hardcover, New)
Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
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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, 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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