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Subjectivity - Theories of the self from Freud to Haraway (Paperback)
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Subjectivity - Theories of the self from Freud to Haraway (Paperback)
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What am I referring to when I say 'I'? This little word is so easy
to use in daily life, yet it has become the focus of intense
theoretical debate. Where does my sense of self come from? Does it
arise spontaneously or is it created by the media or society? Do I
really know myself? This concern with the self, with our
subjectivity, is now our main point of reference in Western
societies. How has it come to be so important? What are the
different ways in which we can approach subjectivity?Nick Mansfield
explores how our understanding of our subjectivity has developed
over the past century. He looks at the work of key modern and
postmodern theorists, including Freud, Foucault, Nietzsche, Lacan,
Kristeva, Deleuze and Guattari, and he shows how subjectivity is
central to debates in contemporary culture, including gender,
sexuality, ethnicity, postmodernism and technology.I am who? No
topic is more crucial to contemporary cultural theory than
subjectivity, and Nick Mansfield has written what has long been
lacking-a lucid, smart introduction to work in the field.Professor
Simon During, University of MelbourneEffortlessly and with humour,
passion and panache, Mansfield offers the reader a telling,
trenchantly articulate d account of the complex enigma of the self,
without resorting to reductively simple critical cliches. This
book, in its graceful movements between disciplines, ideas, and
areas of interest, deserves to become a benchmark for all such
student introductions for some time to come.Julian Wolfreys,
University of FloridaNick Mansfield is Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie
University. He is co-author of Cultural Studies and the New
Humanities (Oxford 1997) and author of Masochism: The art of power
(Praeger 1997).
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