Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject

Book Overview

Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. As new metaphysics of the realia of power and independently animated objects have replaced ancient conceptualizations of substance, being, and causation, the question of the "subject"-of the capability for just such conceptual change, for acting to any effect whatsoever-has reemerged with fresh critical urgency. Writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150131713X
• ISBN13: 9781501317132
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"