Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self
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Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self

Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

  1. 255 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self

Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Difference and Undecidability
  7. 2 Woman as Text
  8. 3 The Post-structuralist Erasure of Experience
  9. 4 Frameworks for Experience
  10. 5 It’s me here’: Writing the Singular Self, Writing the Postdeconstructive Female Self
  11. Conclusion
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index

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