This volume addresses the manifold conjunctures, interactions, and disjunctures that occur at various levels of what has come to be defined under the buzzword, "globalization." While this term has the merit of bringing more fluency to the concept of capitalist dynamics, it simultaneously points to a crisis of representation both in political and epistemological terms. These contributions from the social sciences and humanities assess some of the manifold aspects of the globalization crisis.
This volume addresses the manifold conjunctures, interactions, and disjunctures that occur at various levels of what has come to be defined under the ...
French thinkers, such as Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and Derrida, have been widely perceived as theorists of the linguistic turn. Yet, the linguistic and semiotic traditions which informed the theoretical imagination of these theorists so decisively have hardly been accounted for outside French linguistics. This book presents past and present developments in French discourse analysis, while also paying special attention to the development of enunciative pragmatics, which hinges on the discursive construction of subjectivity. Five textual fragments by these theorists, all written around 1966...
French thinkers, such as Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and Derrida, have been widely perceived as theorists of the linguistic turn. Yet, the linguistic a...
