The Politics of Our Selves : : Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory / / Amy Allen.
Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Directions in Critical Theory ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Foucault, Subjectivity, and the Enlightenment
- 3. The Impurity of Practical Reason
- 4. Dependency, Subordination, and Recognition
- 5. Empowering the Lifeworld?
- 6. Contextualizing Critical Theory
- 7. Engendering Critical Theory
- Concluding Reflections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index