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vol. 3
Interventions: Displacing the
Metaphysical Subject
Keith C. Pheby
Library of Congress
Catalog Number BD 222.P48
132 pages
Publication date May 1,1989
Library binding $24.95
ISBN 0-944624-04-9 or ISBN-13 9780944624043
Paperback $12.95 ISBN
0-944624-05-7 or ISBN-13 9780944624050
In Modernism, conceptions
of existence are bound up with a centered, observing subject. Global crises such
as war and environmental degradation are rooted in metaphysical centricity.
Pheby draws upon Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault to re-think philosophical
discourse without a foundation in centered subject. As such this is a deployment
of deconstruction for decidedly “constructive” purposes. An important book
linking the poststructural critique of the self to social transformation.
Pheby writes,
“In this present study, I will argue that the current global
political arena is fraught with danger: a danger that confronts not
merely the modern technologized subject but the conditions for the
possibility of all discourse and all future discourse. It is
necessary that we transform social relations on a global basis —
though I hasten to add, I am not talking about a ‘global totality’
(a notion to be discussed in the final chapter). . . . At the heart
of this retracing of the political is the nature of the social bond.
Perhaps, if successful, this study will constitute a preface to the
adumbration of an adequate notion of social relations which escapes
both the stifling confines of essentialism, yet also avoids the
somewhat trite (and perhaps impossible) disavowal of the political
that one detects in much post-modern writing. What then will be the
structure of this critique of subjectivity?” – from the
“Introduction.”
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