156 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
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Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall:
* examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism, feminism and queer theory * applies the... Read more
Series Editor's Preface Introduction What is Subjectivity? Classical and Pre-Modern Identities 1. Descartes and the "I" Locke, Kant and the "We" 2. The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Slavery and Subjectives Wollstonecraft and Early Modren Feminist Subjectivity Marx and Class Subjectivity Freud and the Rise of the Social Sciences Nietzsche and the Existentialists 3. The Politics of Identity Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and Discourse Theory The Politics of Gender and Sexuality, Race and Postcoloniality 4. Postmodernism and the Question of Agency Haraway and Cyborg Subjectivity Subjectives Glossary Bibliography Index
Biography
Donald Hall
