Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349522521)

This book charts and challenges the bruising impact of post-Saussurean thought on the categories of experience and self-presence. It attempts a reappropriation of the category of lived experience in dialogue with poststructuralist thinking. Following the insight that mediated subjectivity need not mean alienated selfhood, Meredith forwards a postmetaphysical model of the experiential based on the interpenetration of poststructuralist thinking and hermeneutic phenomenology. Since poststructuralist approaches in feminist theory have often placed women's lived experiences 'under erasure', Meredith uses this hermeneutic/deconstructive model to attempt a rehabilitation of the singular 'flesh and blood' female existent.

Author: Fionola Meredith
ISBN-10: 134952252X
ISBN-13: 9781349522521
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d