num_pages: 224
description: Large 8vo. xxxv 185 (2) pp The Resistance in Theory by John Mowitt acknowledgments preface note on terminology 1. Ideology; 2. Text; 3. Deconstruction 4. Resistance; 5. Unconscious; 6. Paranoia; 7. Autobiography; 8. Semiotica; 9. Feminism; 10. Responsibilities; notes references index. First Edition 1988. Wraps. This book offers a rigorous lucid critique of the debates on the status of the 'subject'---debates that take in but range far beyond the political writings of Althusser the psychoanalytic writings of Lacan and the philosophical work of Derrida. What begins as a thorough analysis of the ways various disciplines theorize the 'subjec' quickly develops into a provocative consideration of the relations among critical theory human agency and social resistance. The author argue that many theorists of the 'subject' routinely deny the possibility of human agency and the 'subject's' resistance to the pressure of the ideological and rejects many of the currently
language: English
title: Discerning the Subject (Theory and History of Literature)
publisher: University of Minnesota Press