Reinventing the Soul by Mari Ruti - ISBN: 9781590511237
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Offers a different perspective on what it means to be a human being and to strive in the world despite the wounding effects of the socialization process. Drawing on the legacies of French poststructuralism, this book builds an alternative to the post-Foucaultian tendency to envision subjectivity as …

Reinventing the Soul

Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life

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  • Paperback

    260 pages

  • Release Date

    17 August 2006

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Summary

Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies.How does the self care for itself in the posthumanist era? What psychic processes might allow the postmodern subject to find meaning and value in its life? Is it possible to delineate a theory of psychic potentiality that is compatible with poststructuralist models of fluid, decentered, and polyvalent subjectivity?Reinventing the Soul offers a new perspective on what it means to be a human being…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781590511237
ISBN-10:1590511239
Author:Mari Ruti
Publisher:Other Press LLC
Imprint:Other Press LLC
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:260
Edition:1st
Release Date:17 August 2006
Weight:354g
Dimensions:228mm x 152mm x 15mm
About The Author

Mari Ruti

Mari RutiMari Ruti received her Ph. D. from the Harvard University Comparative Literature Department in 2000. She teaches critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies at the University of Toronto English Department. She lives in Toronto.

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