Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism

This volume shows that the question of the subject is a key one for many poststructuralist thinkers, that they are aware of the problematic status of agency that arises from their decentering of the foundational subject, and that they offer heterogeneous responses to it.

Auteur

Cillian Ó Fathaigh is an Assistant Professor and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow in Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland. He is the co-editor of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (2022), and his work has been published in Angelaki, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, and Derrida Today.

Gavin Rae is an Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His most recent books are Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (2024) and Poststructuralist Agency (2020).