Theorising Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression

(Part of the Literature, Culture, Theory Series)

by H. Meili Steele

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521576792

ISBN13:9780521576796

Release Date:May 1997

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:234 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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