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Theorising Textual Subjects

Theorising Textual Subjects
Agency and Oppression

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Part of Literature, Culture, Theory

  • Date Published: May 1997
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521576796

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  • This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: how to theorise the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a dialogical agent. By engaging with a wide range of leading political, philosophical, and critical thinkers - Jameson, Habermas, MacIntyre, Rorty, Taylor, Benhabib, and West are all critiqued - Meili Steele proposes linking language with human agency in order to develop an alternative textual and ethical theory of the subject. Steele shows how constructivist theories of agency fail to account for the ethical implications of the supposed contingency of all contexts, and how dialogical theorists fail to acknowledge the insight of postmodern critiques. Developing this theory through readings of texts that address issues of identity, politics, race, and feminist theory, Steele illustrates that we do not have to choose between an idealised or demonised modernity.

    • Wide-ranging study of leading thinkers and theories
    • Addresses political theory, philosophy, and literary theory
    • Maps out approach to a perennial problem: how to account for politics and ethics in imaginative narratives
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    • Date Published: May 1997
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521576796
    • length: 234 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
    • weight: 0.3kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Stories of oppression and appeals to freedom
    2. Language, ethics, and subjectivity in the liberal/communitarian debate
    3. Theorising narratives of agency and subjection
    4. Truth, beauty, and goodness in James's The Ambassadors
    5. The subject of democracy in the work of Ralph Ellison
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    Meili Steele, University of South Carolina

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