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Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject de Professor Claudia Brodsky

Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject

Editat de Professor Claudia Brodsky, Dr. Eloy LaBrada
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 ian 2017
Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. As new metaphysics of the realia of power and independently animated objects have replaced ancient conceptualizations of substance, being, and causation, the question of the "subject"-of the capability for just such conceptual change, for acting to any effect whatsoever-has reemerged with fresh critical urgency. Writing on theories and fictions of the subject from Aristotle to Althusser and Fielding to Flaubert, the contributors to Inventing Agency explore the unprecedented productions of the subject as agent-of cognition, aesthetic experience and judgment, imagination and representation, and moral and political action-that together define the "revolution" in reflection that Kant called "the Age of Critique." Informed by expertise in such interrelated fields as continental and analytic philosophy and literary history, Marxian and utopian theory, poetics and cultural criticism, moral theory and theory of sensibility, and feminist and disability studies, Inventing Agency addresses the invention of subjecthood by philosophical and literary conceptions of the specifically human capacities that continue to reveal the prospect of social-individual and historical-agency in action. This collection on the productions of the subject is vital reading for anyone engaged in thinking about where the categories of contemporary theory come from, and where they might lead next.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501317132
ISBN-10: 150131713X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

A multi-author perspective, with experts from different disciplines, on the history and present of theory

Notă biografică

Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and ancien directeur de programme of the Collège international de philosophie, Paris, France. Her previous publications include The Imposition of Form (1987), Lines of Thought (1996), In the Place of Language (2009), Why Philosophy, Intro., Ed. and Contributor, PMLA (2016), and, co-edited with Toni Morrison, Birth of a Nation'hood (1997), as well as many articles on 17th through 20th-century philosophy and literature.Eloy LaBrada is an instructor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he specializes in the philosophy of gender and sexuality, social ontology, analytic feminism, and the history of modern philosophy and literature. His articles have appeared in PMLA (2016) and JNT (2016).

Cuprins

IntroductionClaudia Brodsky (Princeton University, USA) and Eloy LaBrada (Middlebury College, USA)PART ONE. SUBJECTS 1. I Think, Therefore I FeelMarshall J. Brown (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)2. Some Dark Interiority. A Brief Conceptual HistoryEduardo Lerro (Princeton University, USA)3. Unsexing Subjects: Marie de Gournay on the Ontology of "Sex"Eloy LaBrada (Middlebury College, USA)PART TWO. CAUSALITIES 4. Shadows on the Wall of Reason: Diderot before Fragonard David Ferris (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA /Sebald Chair, University of East Anglia, UK)5. Timely Plot and Unplotted Time: Action and Experience Before and After HegelJohn Park (Princeton University, USA) 6. Unexpected yet Connected: On Aristotle's Poetics and its Heterodox ReceptionKaren Feldman (University of California at Berkeley, USA)7. The Causal Economy of the Subject in Kant, Hegel and Marx: Being in Time an ExternalizationIrina Simova (Princeton University, USA)PART THREE. JUDGMENT 8. The Man Within the Breast: Sympathy, Deformity, and Moral Subjectivity in Adam Smith'sThe Theory of Moral SentimentsPaul Kelleher (Emory University, USA)9. Judging, Inevitably: Aesthetic Judgment and Novelistic Form in Fielding's Joseph AndrewsVivasvan Soni (Northwestern University, USA)10. The Linguistic Condition of Judgment: Kant's "Common Sense"Claudia Brodsky (Princeton University, USA)Index

Recenzii

Brown compares these poets to a range of mostly Romantic writers and thinkers, with all the graceful erudition to which his readers have become accustomed.
Inventing Agency, Essay on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject offers an admirable examination of the multiple ways the capacity to think and act, to reflect or negate have been both re-defined and questioned in the modern era. The authors gathered in this volume engage in a productive dialogue, focusing on distinctive works and critical perspectives. The question of agency is approached through a variety of texts that focus on aesthetics, philosophy, painting, narrative strategies and historical singularities. Knowledgeable and provocative, Inventing Agency goes far beyond the terms with which, from Descartes to Kant, the question of the authority and status of the subject have been framed, raising important questions regarding communicability and current forms of critical thought in its relationship to history.
This collection of essays proposes a provocative and original approach to the much debated nature of the subject with a simple yet far-reaching and creative move. Instead of describing or analyzing what the subject is, the essays consider what subjects do, in the world, in time, and in history. The 'inventing' of the subject's agency does not mean that the authors are discovering agency, but rather points to the underlying meaning of the word 'invention,' in that the authors uncover what theoretical approaches have overlooked: the subject as agent, as an actor who has been occulted by static, reductive, or deterministic theories. This dynamic approach does not result in a unified theory but yields multifaceted explorations of the subject's acts of speech in which agency works, carried out in close analyses of texts written by diverse philosophers and literary figures that include Descartes, Gournay, Diderot, Richardson, Flaubert, Aristotle, Fielding, Adam Smith, Hegel, and Kant.
Inventing Agency presents a set of innovative and probing essays focused on the question of the subject. Each offers a new perspective on the imbrication of literature and philosophy, investigating topics such as feeling and judgment, temporality and sexuality. The essays have a wide disciplinary range, bringing in art history, disability studies, and more general questions of literary studies such as narrative, poetics and performative language. Many of the essays pose the question of the (post)enlightenment subject anew, seeking openings in the legacies of Diderot, Kant and Hegel to open up possibilities of de-essentialized subjectivity. The volume is a serious and engaging contribution to the study of literature and philosophy and the interrelation between language and thinking. The book culminates in Claudia Brodsky's magisterial essay on Kant's notions of common sense, language and judgment-a preview of what promises to be a challenging and illuminating book to come.