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Claudia Brodsky (Ed.) - Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject - 9781501317132 - V9781501317132
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Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject

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Description for Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject Paperback. A state-of-the-art overview and reappraisal of the literary and philosophical origins of theory and, in particular, of modern subjectivity. Editor(s): Brodsky, Claudia; LaBrada, Eloy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 32. Weight in Grams: 358.
Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. As new metaphysics of the realia of power and independently animated objects have replaced ancient conceptualizations of substance, being, and causation, the question of the subject -of the capability for just such conceptual change, for acting to any effect whatsoever-has reemerged with fresh critical urgency. Writing on theories and fictions of the subject from Aristotle to Althusser and Fielding to Flaubert, the contributors to Inventing Agency explore the unprecedented productions of the subject as agent-of cognition, aesthetic experience and judgment, imagination and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781501317132
SKU
V9781501317132
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About Claudia Brodsky (Ed.)
Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and ancien directeur de programme of the College international de philosophie, Paris, France. Her previous publications include The Imposition of Form (1987), Lines of Thought (1996), In the Place of Language (2009), Why Philosophy, Intro., Ed. and Contributor, PMLA (2016), and, co-edited with Toni Morrison, Birth of a ... Read more

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Inventing Agency, Essay on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject offers an admirable examination of the multiple ways the capacity to think and act, to reflect or negate have been both re-defined and questioned in the modern era. The authors gathered in this volume engage in a productive dialogue, focusing on distinctive works and critical perspectives. The ... Read more

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