Agent, Person, Subject, Self: A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure

by Paul Kockelman

This book offers both a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world. It provides a reconstructive rather than deconstructive theory of the individual, one which both analytically separates and theoretically synthesizes a range of faculties that are often confused and conflated: agency (understood as a causal capacity), subjectivity (understood as a representational capacity), selfhood (understood as a reflexive capacity),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199926980
• ISBN13: 9780199926985
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"