Politics of Our Selves
«Scholars will find this book an interesting read. -- Kristina Grob Feminist Review Blog Persuasive and well-reasoned -- J. Jeremy Wisnewski Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This admirable book provides incredibly clear and lucid readings of texts that students find notoriously difficult... Highly recommended. Choice Nuanced and careful readings of Foucault, Butler, Habermas and Benhabib. -- Margaret A. McLaren Foucault Studies A pathbreaking and elegantly argued book. -- Jana Sawicki PhiloSOPHIA "[A] tour de force... The Politics of Our Selves forces its reader to think hard, and honestly to think through the implications of the glib stand-off between Foucault and Habermas that stands in for a much more meaningful dialogue that we rarely get to have. -- Cressida Heyes Philosophy and Social Criticism A remarkably comprehensive and very impressive treatment of many of the most vexing issues in contemporary critical theory. -- Moira Gatens European Journal of Philosophy»
Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompatible. Les mer
If critical theory is to be truly critical, Allen argues, it will have to pay greater attention to the phenomenon of subjection, and will have to think through the challenges that the notion of subjection poses for the critical-theoretical conception of autonomy. In particular, Allen discusses in detail how the normative aspirations of Habermasian critical theory need to be recast in light of Foucault's and Butler's account of subjection. This book is original both in its attempt to think of power and autonomy simultaneously and in its effort to bring the work of Foucault and Habermas into a productive dialogue.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231136228
- Utgivelsesår
- 2007
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«Scholars will find this book an interesting read. -- Kristina Grob Feminist Review Blog Persuasive and well-reasoned -- J. Jeremy Wisnewski Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This admirable book provides incredibly clear and lucid readings of texts that students find notoriously difficult... Highly recommended. Choice Nuanced and careful readings of Foucault, Butler, Habermas and Benhabib. -- Margaret A. McLaren Foucault Studies A pathbreaking and elegantly argued book. -- Jana Sawicki PhiloSOPHIA "[A] tour de force... The Politics of Our Selves forces its reader to think hard, and honestly to think through the implications of the glib stand-off between Foucault and Habermas that stands in for a much more meaningful dialogue that we rarely get to have. -- Cressida Heyes Philosophy and Social Criticism A remarkably comprehensive and very impressive treatment of many of the most vexing issues in contemporary critical theory. -- Moira Gatens European Journal of Philosophy»