Freedom and the Subject of Theory
Essays in Honour of Christina Howells
Edited by Oliver Davis and Colin Davis
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 14 May 2019 • 232pp ISBN: 978-1-781887-33-2 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781887-34-9 (paperback, 13 December 2021) • RRP £10.99, $14.99, €13.49 ISBN: 978-1-781887-81-3 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR FrenchFictionPhilosophystudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. Are our actions and values freely chosen, or imposed on us by a complex interplay of unconscious motivations, culture, history, institutions and the pressure of others? Is the human subject a self-defining, self-creating autonomous agent, or merely the product or plaything of forces beyond its control? Are other people allies in the project to realize freedom, or unmovable obstacles who stand in our way? If we knew how to embrace freedom, would it be a blessing or a curse, a joyous epiphany or a crushing burden? To what extent does our finite mortal existence condition and limit our freedom? The work of Christina Howells has been instrumental in demonstrating how Continental thought has explored these questions in ways which are intellectually rigorous and humanly compelling. In this volume, some of her colleagues and former students build upon her work by addressing the situation of ‘theory’ today – literary, political, psychoanalytic, aesthetic and philosophical – in its relation to freedom and subjectivity. The volume includes a number of new essays on each of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Jean-Luc Nancy (b. 1940), as well as essays on a range of other theorists. Taken together, the volume’s essays show how the modern theorising subject may be both the source and the product of its endeavour to understand its place in the human, mortal world. Oliver Davis is Reader in French Studies at Warwick University. Colin Davis is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Christina Howells is Professor of French and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Contents:
Bibliography entry: Davis, Oliver, and Colin Davis (eds), Freedom and the Subject of Theory: Essays in Honour of Christina Howells (Legenda, 2019) First footnote reference: 35 Freedom and the Subject of Theory: Essays in Honour of Christina Howells, ed. by Oliver Davis and Colin Davis (Legenda, 2019), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Davis and Davis, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Davis, Oliver, and Colin Davis (eds). 2019. Freedom and the Subject of Theory: Essays in Honour of Christina Howells (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Davis and Davis 2019: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Davis and Davis 2019: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Freedom-Subject-Theory |