Politics of Our Selves Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory

Name: Politics of Our Selves Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory
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ISBN: 9780231136228

ISBN-10: 0231136226

ISBN-13: 9780231136228

Edition: 2007

Authors: Amy Allen

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Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompatible. In her bold new book, Amy Allen argues that the capacity for autonomy is rooted in the very power relations that constitute the self. Allen's theoretical framework illuminates both aspects of what she calls, following Foucault, the "politics of our selves." It analyzes power in all its depth and complexity, including the complicated phenomenon of subjection, without giving up on the ideal of…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Amy Allen is associate professor of philosophy and women's and gender studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity(1999).



Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Politics of Our Selves


The Entanglement of Power and Validity


Will the "Truth" Set You Free?


The Subject of Politics


Tasks for a Feminist Critical Theory



Foucault, Subjectivity, and the Enlightenment: A Critical Reappraisal


Foucault and Kant


The Empirical and the Transcendental


The End of Man


The Impurity of Reason and the Possibility of Critique



The Impurity of Practical Reason: Power and Autonomy in Foucault


Technologies of Domination


Governmentality and Governmentalization


Technologies of the Self


Resistance, Strategy, and Reciprocity



Dependency, Subordination, and Recognition: Butler on Subjection


Subjection


Dependency, Subordination, and Recognition


Ambivalent Recognition


Concluding Political Postscript



Empowering the Lifeworld? Autonomy and Power in Habermas


Systematically Distorted Subjectivity?


Individuation Through Socialization


The Morally Disciplined Personality



Contextualizing Critical Theory


The Empirical and the Transcendental (Reprise)


The Context Transcendence of Validity Claims


Contextualizing Habermas



Engendering Critical Theory


Benhabib's Critique of Habermas


The Narrative Conception of the Self


Gender, Power, and Narrative


Concluding Reflections


Notes


Bibliography


Index