Being Subjects

Auteur

J. Moufawad-Paul is professor of philosophy at York University and is the author of Continuity and Rupture, The Communist Necessity, Politics in Command, and other books.

Texte du rabat

The notion of the subject is so frequently used in theory and philosophy to the point that it has become opaque. Being Subjects not only provides a critical historiography of this notion--such as related topics of being and essence--but also argues for the subject's centrality in a radical politics.

Contenu

Foreword, D.Z. Shaw

Prologue

Chapter 1: The Meaning of Subject

Chapter 2: Subject and Ideology

Chapter 3: Subject and Being

Chapter 4: Subject as Assemblage, Partisan, Collective

Epilogue: The Subjective Factor

Acknowledgments

Index

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