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Despite, or quite possibly because of, the structuralist,
post-structuralist, and deconstructionist critiques of
subjectivity, master signifiers, and political foundations,
contemporary philosophy has been marked by a resurgence in interest
in questions of subjectivity and the political. Guided by the
contention that different conceptions of the political are, at
least implicitly, committed to specific conceptions of subjectivity
while different conceptions of subjectivity have different
political implications, this collection brings together an
international selection of scholars to explore these notions and
their connection. Rather than privilege one approach or conception
of the subjectivity-political relationship, this volume emphasizes
the nature and status of the and in the 'subjectivity' and 'the
political' schema. By thinking from the place between subjectivity
and the political, it is able to explore this relationship from a
multitude of perspectives, directions, and thinkers to show the
heterogeneity, openness, and contested nature of it. While the
contributions deal with different themes or thinkers, the
themes/thinkers are linked historically and/or conceptually,
thereby providing coherence to the volume. Thinkers addressed
include Arendt, Butler, Levinas, Agamben, Derrida, Kristeva,
Adorno, Gramsci, Mill, Hegel, and Heidegger, while the
subjectivity-political relation is engaged with through the
mediation of the law-political, ethics-politics,
theological-political, inside-outside, subject-person, and
individual-institution relationships, as well as through concepts
such as genius, happiness, abjection, and ugliness. The original
essays in this volume will be of interest to researchers in
philosophy, politics, political theory, critical theory, cultural
studies, history of ideas, psychology, and sociology.
This volume brings together an international array of scholars to
reconsider the meaning and place of poststructuralism historically
and demonstrate some of the ways in which it continues to be
relevant, especially for debates in aesthetics, ethics, and
politics. The book's chapters focus on the works of Butler,
Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, and
Lyotard-in combination with those of Agamben, Luhman, Nancy, and
Nietzsche-and examine issues including biopolitics, culture,
embodiment, epistemology, history, music, temporality, political
resistance, psychoanalysis, revolt, and the visual arts. The
contributors use poststructuralism as a hermeneutical strategy that
rejects the traditional affirmation of unity, totality,
transparency, and representation to instead focus on the
foundational importance of open-ended becoming, difference, the
unknowable, and expression. This approach allows for a more
expansive definition of poststructuralism and helps demonstrate how
it has contributed to debates across philosophy and other
disciplines. Historical Traces and Future Pathways of
Poststructuralism will be of particular interest to researchers in
philosophy, politics, political theory, critical theory,
aesthetics, feminist theory, cultural studies, intellectual
history, psychoanalysis, and sociology.
This volume brings together an international array of scholars to
reconsider the meaning and place of poststructuralism historically
and demonstrate some of the ways in which it continues to be
relevant, especially for debates in aesthetics, ethics, and
politics. The book's chapters focus on the works of Butler,
Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, and
Lyotard-in combination with those of Agamben, Luhman, Nancy, and
Nietzsche-and examine issues including biopolitics, culture,
embodiment, epistemology, history, music, temporality, political
resistance, psychoanalysis, revolt, and the visual arts. The
contributors use poststructuralism as a hermeneutical strategy that
rejects the traditional affirmation of unity, totality,
transparency, and representation to instead focus on the
foundational importance of open-ended becoming, difference, the
unknowable, and expression. This approach allows for a more
expansive definition of poststructuralism and helps demonstrate how
it has contributed to debates across philosophy and other
disciplines. Historical Traces and Future Pathways of
Poststructuralism will be of particular interest to researchers in
philosophy, politics, political theory, critical theory,
aesthetics, feminist theory, cultural studies, intellectual
history, psychoanalysis, and sociology.
Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the
human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions
have tended to approach it through the lens of warfare and/or limit
it to physical forms. This changed in the twentieth century as the
nature and meaning of 'violence' itself became a conceptual
problem. Guided by the contention that Walter Benjamin's famous
1921 'Critique of Violence' essay inaugurated this turn to an
explicit questioning of violence, this collection brings together
an international array of scholars to engage with how subsequent
thinkers-Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Butler, Castoriadis, Derrida,
Fanon, Gramsci, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Schmitt-grappled with
the meaning and place of violence. The aim is not to reduce these
multiple responses to a singular one, but to highlight the
heterogeneous ways in which the concept has been inquired into and
the manifold meanings of it that have resulted. To this end, each
chapter focuses on a different approach or thinker within twentieth
and twenty-first century European philosophy, with many of them
tackling the issue through the mediation of other topics and
disciplines, including biopolitics, epistemology, ethics, culture,
law, politics, and psychoanalysis. As such, the volume will be an
invaluable resource for those interested in Critical Theory,
Cultural Studies, History of Ideas, Philosophy, Politics, Political
Theory, Psychology, and Sociology.
Despite, or quite possibly because of, the structuralist,
post-structuralist, and deconstructionist critiques of
subjectivity, master signifiers, and political foundations,
contemporary philosophy has been marked by a resurgence in interest
in questions of subjectivity and the political. Guided by the
contention that different conceptions of the political are, at
least implicitly, committed to specific conceptions of subjectivity
while different conceptions of subjectivity have different
political implications, this collection brings together an
international selection of scholars to explore these notions and
their connection. Rather than privilege one approach or conception
of the subjectivity-political relationship, this volume emphasizes
the nature and status of the and in the ‘subjectivity’ and
‘the political’ schema. By thinking from the place between
subjectivity and the political, it is able to explore this
relationship from a multitude of perspectives, directions, and
thinkers to show the heterogeneity, openness, and contested nature
of it. While the contributions deal with different themes or
thinkers, the themes/thinkers are linked historically and/or
conceptually, thereby providing coherence to the volume. Thinkers
addressed include Arendt, Butler, Levinas, Agamben, Derrida,
Kristeva, Adorno, Gramsci, Mill, Hegel, and Heidegger, while the
subjectivity-political relation is engaged with through the
mediation of the law-political, ethics-politics,
theological-political, inside-outside, subject-person, and
individual-institution relationships, as well as through concepts
such as genius, happiness, abjection, and ugliness. The original
essays in this volume will be of interest to researchers in
philosophy, politics, political theory, critical theory, cultural
studies, history of ideas, psychology, and sociology.
Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the
human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions
have tended to approach it through the lens of warfare and/or limit
it to physical forms. This changed in the twentieth century as the
nature and meaning of 'violence' itself became a conceptual
problem. Guided by the contention that Walter Benjamin's famous
1921 'Critique of Violence' essay inaugurated this turn to an
explicit questioning of violence, this collection brings together
an international array of scholars to engage with how subsequent
thinkers-Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Butler, Castoriadis, Derrida,
Fanon, Gramsci, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Schmitt-grappled with
the meaning and place of violence. The aim is not to reduce these
multiple responses to a singular one, but to highlight the
heterogeneous ways in which the concept has been inquired into and
the manifold meanings of it that have resulted. To this end, each
chapter focuses on a different approach or thinker within twentieth
and twenty-first century European philosophy, with many of them
tackling the issue through the mediation of other topics and
disciplines, including biopolitics, epistemology, ethics, culture,
law, politics, and psychoanalysis. As such, the volume will be an
invaluable resource for those interested in Critical Theory,
Cultural Studies, History of Ideas, Philosophy, Politics, Political
Theory, Psychology, and Sociology.
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