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Size: 6x0x9; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ]

Size: 6x0x9; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.

Large 8vo xxxv, 185 (2) pp, Foreword: The Resistance in Theory by John

Large 8vo xxxv, 185 (2) pp, Foreword: The Resistance in Theory by John Mowitt, acknowledgments, preface, note on terminology, 1. Ideology; 2. Text; 3. Deconstruction 4. Resistance; 5. Unconscious; 6. Paranoia; 7. Autobiography; 8. Semiotica; 9. Feminism; 10. Responsibilities; notes, references, index. First Edition, 1988. "This book offers a rigorous, lucid critique of the debates on the status of the 'subject'---debates that take in but range far beyond the political writings of Althusser, the psychoanaytic writings of Lacan, and the philosophical work of Derrida. What begins as a thorough analysis of the ways various disciplines theorize the 'subjec', quickly develops into a provocative consideration of the relations among critical theory, human agency, and social resistance. The author argue that many theorists of the 'subject' routinely deny the possibility of human agency and the 'subject's' resistance to the pressure of the ideological, and rejects many of the currently fashionable notions of subjectivity---including the poststructuralist 'decentered subject'---as flawed or incomplete and calls instead for a view of the 'subject' which will allow for genuine political and social action." Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Wraps.