Subjects in Process: Diversity, Mobility, and the Politics of Subjectivity in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781594519031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 238 str.

Michael A. Peters; Michael A. Peters; Alicia Gaspar De Alba

Opis

"Subjects in Process" investigates the human subject in the first decade of the twenty-first century in relation to changing social circumstances and belongings. The concept of subjectivity in the Western tradition has focused on the figure of the individual, knowing and acting human subject often thought to be autonomous, self-conscious, and rooted. This book calls into question the traditional view of the subject, and offers a new framework that emphasizes the subject in process. Written from a perspective that takes account of globalization and the pressures that it places upon individuals and communities this book draws upon Nietzsche and the post-modern thinkers that follow him, and develops a conception of the subject that is nomadic, fluid, and migratory, rather than grounded and complete. Arguing that a modern conception of the subject must be one based on cultural exchanges and transformations, this book is sure to provide new insights, suggestions, and developments for anyone concerned with or interested in the identity of the individual now and in the future."

Spis treści

1. Subjects in the Margins Leonor Arfuch 2. Sociologizing Global Youth Cultures: The Genealogy of a Discourse of Subjects in Process Tina (A. C.) Besley 3. Becoming Selves with/in Landscapes and across Borders Bronwyn Davies, Bodil Halvars-Franzen, Hillevi Lenz Taguchi,Farzaneh Moinian, Kajsa Ohrlander, and Anna Palmer 4. And the Debate on Subjectivity Does Not End Rosa Nidia Buenfil Burgos 5. Fantasies of "Chineseness" and the Traffic in Women from Mainland China to Hong Kong in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian Pheng Cheah 6. Cultural Contact and the Turn to the Subject Alicia de Alba 7. Not Neo-Marxist, Not Post-Marxist, Not Marxian:Some Notes on Critical Pedagogy and Marxist Thought Peter McLaren 8. Bodies of Knowledge and Knowledges of the Body Michael A. Peters 9. The Subject in Honigswald's New Kantian Transcendental Philosophy-or Why Culture and Subject Are One Monika Witsch 10. The Nomadic Existence of the Eternal Improviser and Diasporic Co-poiesis in the Era of Mega-speed Ilan Gur-Ze'ev 11. Ernesto Laclau. Interview Alicia de Alba

O autorze

Michael A. Peters, Alicia de Alba