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Robbins (autobiography and confessional writing, U. College Northampton) explores the simultaneous close link and apparent opposition between subject and object in literature. ... More
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This 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. ... More
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"This volume is destined to set the tone and agenda for discussion of subjectivity for a considerable time. It illuminates the threads that span the vast existential space ... More
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Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and ... More
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Discusses the therapist's subjectivity as an important part of the therapeutic process. More
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This study considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore by examining four crucial ... More
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The controversy over whether feminists can usefully use Foucault's theoretical framework to advance their concerns is a mirror of the larger debate over whether postmodernism ... More
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Focusing on William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru, Samuel Beckett's Company, and Toni ... More
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This bold new theoretical study explores dissident subjectivity, that is, the struggle for unique authorial identity in American literary discourse that has existed, according ... More
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This book opens with an interrogation of the representation of immigrants in Asian American and, to a lesser extent, Asian Diaspora literatures, including works by such ... More
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What does it mean to talk about subjectivity in the language of space, and what are the political implications of doing so? A provocative and illuminating work, Indifferent ... More
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Much has been missed by social researchers in their attempt to understand the human experience as a series of rational, cognitive choices. What comes under the rubric of " ... More
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"This book may well become the next big statement on nineteenth-century music as a cultural phenomenon. Many will argue with it and, indeed, argue passionately--this is, after ... More
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Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. Every aspect of contemporary ... More
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Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. Every aspect of contemporary ... More
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One of the particular concerns of the Victorians was the notion of "taste" and the idea that good taste in any field clothing, décor, landscape, music, art, even food ... More
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Overheard Voices examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a ... More
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Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia ... More
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In Retrieving Experience , Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield ... More
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After World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents the ... More
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After World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents the ... More
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Self and Subjectivity is a collection of seminal essays with commentary that traces the development of conceptions of 'self' and 'subjectivity' in European and Anglo-American ... More
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The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of ... More
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Through an examination of short stories spanning Joseph Conrad's entire writing career, Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan engages with the question of authorial subjectivity and ethics ... More
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What can psychotherapy and psychoanalysis teach us about turning human misery into insight and personal freedom? Polly Young-Eisendrath offers a response that opens new vistas ... More
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Subjection and Subjectivity offers an account of moral subjectivity and moral reflection designed to meet the needs of feminism, as well as other emancipatory movements. ... More
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In this wide-ranging study of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, Roger Frie develops a critical account of recent conceptions of the subject in philosophy and pdychoanalytic ... More
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The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan. More
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This book analyses the relation between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state. More
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This book focuses on Foucault's later work and his (re)turn to 'the hermeneutics of the subject,' exploring the implications of his thinking for education, pedagogy, and ... More
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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine the subjective experiences of the moulding of creativity, for good or bad, by institutional values. It is ... More
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In Retrieving Experience , Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield ... More
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In Subjectivity, Objectivity, & Intersubjectivity Joseph A. Bracken Presents a new model for understanding the relationship between the One and the Many, wherein neither ... More
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This book focuses on how recent Anglo-American philosophy has challenged deeply held notions of subjectivity, mind, and language. More
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What am I referring to when I say "I"? This little word is so easy to use in daily life, yet it has become the focus of intense theoretical debate. Where does my sense of ... More
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What am I referring to when I say "I"? This little word is so easy to use in daily life, yet it has become the focus of intense theoretical debate. Where does my sense of ... More
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This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but ... More
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The essays in Violence and Subjectivity, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon ... More
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Slavoj i ek is one of the most interesting and important philosophers working today, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular culture and contemporary ... More
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"Solms and his colleagues are making a brilliant, determined, scrupulous, and (one wants to say) tactful endeavor to approach, in a new way, the oldest question of all ... More
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This book offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. More
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Taking the science fiction story about an encounter with an alien as a pivot, Spek (religion and literature, U. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) explores the remarkable life of ... More
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Taking the science fiction story about an encounter with an alien as a pivot, Spek (religion and literature, U. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) explores the remarkable life of ... More
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"With this important treatise on the contemporary philosophy of interpretation, Schrag takes his stand at the leading edge of hermeneutic discussion. . . . Highly recommended. ... More
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Demonstrating that an intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must in our post-colonial world, the essays in this volume are a valuable contribution to ... More
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Demonic possession during the early modern period is important to study, contends Kallendorf (Hispanic studies, Texas A&M U.), because the potential for such possession both ... More
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The first book in English to elucidate the central issues in Fichte's work. More
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"The definition of treason was so contested and the process of the prosecution so fluid that the trials Cunningham explores provide important resources for those interested ... More
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A scholar of both French literature and psychology, Miller argues that the characters in contemporary French novelist Constant's work are all searching for safety, sometimes ... More
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A scholar of both French literature and psychology, Miller argues that the characters in contemporary French novelist Constant's work are all searching for safety, sometimes ... More
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Author Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles's TRACHINIAE, Aeschylus's AGAMEMNON, and Euripides's ALCESTIS. Wohl shows the ... More
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Making Modern Lives looks at how young people shape their lives as they move through their secondary school years and into the world beyond. It explores how they develop ... More
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Making Modern Lives looks at how young people shape their lives as they move through their secondary school years and into the world beyond. It explores how they develop ... More
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Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a ... More
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What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can ... More
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Nature and Psyche argues that psychological and environmental writing and action are all too often colonized by the same assumptions that inhibit ecological and cultural ... More
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Nature and Psyche argues that psychological and environmental writing and action are all too often colonized by the same assumptions that inhibit ecological and cultural ... More
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Vitanza introduces his book with the questions: "What Do I Want, Wanting to Write This ('our') Book? What Do I Want, Wanting You to Read This ('our') Book?" Thereafter, in a ... More
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Much effort in recent philosophy has been devoted to attacking the "metaphysics of the subject." Identified largely with French post-structuralist thought, yet stemming ... More
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The Passive Eye is a revolutionary and historically rich account of Berkeley s theory of vision. In this formidable work, the author considers the theory of the embodied ... More
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The Passive Eye is a revolutionary and historically rich account of Berkeley s theory of vision. In this formidable work, the author considers the theory of the embodied ... More
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This book discusses approaches to the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' life. More
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This book crosses the frontier of critical theory by illuminating the contradictory predicaments Africans confront at the turn of the 21st century. The essays recognize ... More
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Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another. More
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