Theorizing textual subjects : agency and oppression / Meili Steele.

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Steele, Meili, 1949-

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TextSeries: Literature, culture, theory ; 21.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 225 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511004893
9780511004896
0511583109
9780511583100
9780521571852
0521571855
9780521576796
0521576792

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theorizing textual subjects.DDC classification:

801/.95 20

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PN98.S6 S75 1997eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 of the subject. Steele shows how constructivist theories of agency fail to account for the ethical implications of the supposed contingency of all contexts, and how dialogical theorists fail to acknowledge the insight of postmodern critiques. Developing this theory through readings of texts that address issues of identity, politics, race, and feminist theory, Steele illustrates that we do not have to choose between an idealised or demonised modernity.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-223) and index.

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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 of the subject. Steele shows how constructivist theories of agency fail to account for the ethical implications of the supposed contingency of all contexts, and how dialogical theorists fail to acknowledge the insight of postmodern critiques. Developing this theory through readings of texts that address issues of identity, politics, race, and feminist theory, Steele illustrates that we do not have to choose between an idealised or demonised modernity.

English.

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