1st Edition
Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism
Introduction: Agency and Poststructuralism Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Gavin Rae
Part I: Ethics
1. The Immanence of Desire: Subjectivity and Agency in Anti-Oedipus Sean Bowden
2. Agency and the Imaginary: Lacan, Irigaray, Castoriadis Gavin Rae
3. What Can Subjects Do? Judith Butler’s Notion of Agency Emma Ingala
4. Reading Agency in Suspension: Derrida and the Undecideable Lisa Foran
Part II: History and Aesthetics
5. “Something Will Turn Up”: Why Derrida Remains Trapped in Modernity Sacha Golob
6. What is an Event to a Subject? What is a Subject to an Event? Musical Folds Michael Székely
Part III: Politics
7. Foucault’s Agentive Discharge Luke Collison
8. Political Plasticity: Catherine Malabou’s Anarchic Agents Cillian Ó Fathaigh
Biography
Cillian Ó Fathaigh is an Assistant Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow in Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland. He is the co-editor of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship (2022), and his work has been published in Angelaki, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, and Derrida Today.
Gavin Rae is an Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His most recent books are Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (2024) and Poststructuralist Agency (2020).
