Rethinking The Subject : An Anthology Of Contemporary European Social Thought

ISBN-13: 9780813315829 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 239 str.

James D. Faubion; Paul Rabinow

Opis

Since the early 1970s, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programs more thoroughly their own. Rethinking the Subject brings together in one volume some of the most influential writings of Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, Pizzorno, Macfarlane, and other authors whose ideas have had a worldwide influence in recent social history.The anthology is testament to the central importance of three contemporary themes, each familiar to earlier thinkers but never definitively formulated or resolved. The first two concern the nature and modalities of power and legitimacy in society. The third, and most fundamental, deals with the nature and modalities of the self or subject. These themes owe their special contemporary relevance to an array of eventsfrom the collapse of colonialism to the birth of test-tube babies. James Faubion's introduction traces the historical context of these influential events and themes. It also traces the lineaments of a still inchoate intellectual movement, of which the writers included in this anthology are the vanguard."

Spis treści

Foreword -- A Note on the Editing -- Credits -- Introduction -- Cultured Bodies -- Structures, Habitus, Practices -- Gender and Identity in the New Guinea Highlands -- Discipline -- Matters and Ideas -- Politics Unbound -- Progress Exposed as Fate? -- Modernity and the Planes of Historicity -- The Totalitarian Disease -- Individualism and the Ideology of Romantic Love -- The Contemporary Codification of Intimacy -- Acts and Reasons -- Communicative Versus Subject-Centered Reason -- The Contemporary Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge -- Economies and Societies -- Post-Industrial Classes -- On Consumer Society

O autorze

James Faubion