Rethinking the Subject

by Faubion, James D.

• ISBN13: 9780813315812
• ISBN10: 0813315816
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

Since the early 1970s, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programs more thoroughly their own.Rethinking the Subjectbrings 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.

Author Biography

James D. Faubion is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
A Note on the Editing	p. ix
Credits	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 15
Cultured Bodies	p. 29
Structures, Habitus, Practices	p. 31
Structures, Habitus, Practices	p. 43
Gender and Identity in the New Guinea Highlands	p. 46
Gender and Identity in the New Guinea Highlands	p. 55
Discipline	p. 60
discipline	p. 69
Matters and Ideas	p. 71
Politics Unbound	p. 73
Politics Unbound	p. 86
Progress Exposed as Fate?	p. 90
Blumenberg	p. 96
Modernity and the Planes of Historicity	p. 98
Modernity and the Planes of Historicity	p. 110
The Totalitarian Disease	p. 112
The Totalitarian Disease	p. 122
Individualism and the Ideology of Romantic Love	p. 125
Individualism and the Ideology of Romantic Love	p. 136
The Contemporary Codification of Intimacy	p. 138
The Contemporary Codification of Intimacy	p. 147
Acts and Reasons	p. 151
Communicative Versus Subject-Centered Reason	p. 153
Communicative Versus Subject-Centered Reason	p. 164
The Contemporary Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge	p. 165
The Contemporary Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge	p. 174
Economies and Societies	p. 179
Post-Industrial Classes	p. 181
Post-Industrial Classes	p. 192
On Consumer Society	p. 193
On Consumer Society	p. 202
About the Book and Editor	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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