Rethinking the subject : an anthology of contemporary European social thought

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Rethinking the subject : an anthology of contemporary European social thought

edited by James D. Faubion ; foreword by Paul Rabinow

Westview Press, 1995

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Includes bibliographical notes and index

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ISBN 9780813315812

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Since the early 1970s, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programmes more thoroughly their own. This text 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 thory. This anthology is testament to the central importance of three contemporary themes, each familiar to earlier thinkers but never definitely 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 events - from the collapse of colonialism to the birth of test-tube babies. Janmes Fauion's introduction traces the historical context of these events and themes. It also traces the lineaments of a still incohoate intellectual movement, of which this anthologies contributors are the vangaurd. Whether "modernist" or "post-modernist", this movement leads away from a "world-constituting subject", which in one guise or another has served as the ontological fround of social reflection and research since Kant. It points instead toward ontological pluralism and toward polytheic diagnostics of heterogeneous forces that constitute a multiplicity of worlds and subjects.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Cultured bodies: structures, habitus, practices, Pierre Bourdieu
  • gender and identity in the New Guinea highlands, Marilyn Strathern
  • discipline, Michel Foucault. Part 2 Matters and ideas: politics unbound, Alessandro Pizzorno
  • progress exposed as fate?, Hans Blumenberg
  • modernity and the planes of historicity, Reinhart Koselleck
  • the totalitarian disease, Louis Dumont
  • individualism and the ideology of romantic love, Alan Macfarlane
  • the contemporary codification of intimacy, Niklas Luhmann. Part 3 Acts and reasons: communicative versus subject-centred reason, Juergen Habermas
  • the contemporary pragmatics of scientific knowledge, Jean-Francois Lyotard. Part 4 Economies and societies: post-industrial classes, Alain Touraine
  • on consumer society, Jean Baudrillard.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813315829

Description

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 events,from 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.

Table of Contents

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

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