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

Amy Allen

November, 2007
Cloth, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13622-8
$34.50 / £24.00

1. Introduction: The Politics of Our Selves

2. Foucault, Subjectivity, and the Enlightenment: A Critical Reappraisal

3. The Impurity of Practical Reason: Power and Autonomy in Foucault

4. Dependency, Subordination, and Recognition: Butler on Subjection

5. Empowering the Lifeworld? Autonomy and Power in Habermas

6. Contextualizing Critical Theory

7. Engendering Critical Theory

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Political Philosophy

Series

• New Directions in Critical Theory

About the Author

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).

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