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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Inheriting Problems and Paradoxes: Subjectivity and Modern Philosophy; 2. Marxism and Subjectivity: from Lukcs to Althusser; 3. Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity and the Vita Lingua; 4. Derrida, Subjectivity and the Politics of Diffrance; 5. The Discursive Construction of the Subject; Conclusion The Persistence of the Subject; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
French philosophy and cultural theory continue to hold a prestigious and influential position in European thought. One of the central themes of contemporary French philosophy is its concern with the theoretical and political status of the subject, a question which has been broached by structuralists and poststructuralists through an analysis of the construction of the subject in and by language, discourse, power and ideology. Contemporary French Philosophy outlines the construction of the subject in modern philosophy, focusing in particular on the seminal work of Althusser, Lacan, Derrida and F |
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Print version record |
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Philosophy, French.
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Subject (Philosophy) -- History
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
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Subject (Philosophy) -- History -- 20th century
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, French
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Philosophy, Modern
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Subject (Philosophy)
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847142634 |
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184714263X |
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1281291609 |
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9781281291608 |
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