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Theorizing textual subjects : agency and oppression /

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, Ben...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steele, Meili, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Colección:Literature, culture, theory ; 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Stories of oppression and appeals to freedom
  • Language, ethics, and subjectivity in the liberal/communitarian debate
  • Theorizing narratives of agency and subjection
  • Truth, beauty, and goodness in James's The Ambassadors
  • The subject of democracy in the work of Ralph Ellison.