Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics - Paperback

by Gavin Rae (Editor), Emma Ingala (Editor)

This volume reconsiders poststructuralism historically and demonstrates the ways in which it remains relevant, especially for debates in aesthetics, ethics, and politics. It examines issues including biopolitics, culture, embodiment, epistemology, history, music, temporality, political resistance, psychoanalysis, revolt, and the visual arts.

Author Biography

Gavin Rae is Senior Research Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He is the author of six monographs, the most recent of which are Poststructuralist Agency (2020); Critiquing Sovereign Violence (2019); and Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition (2019), published by Edinburgh University Press; and the co-editor (with Emma Ingala) of The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics and Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives, published by Routledge.

Emma Ingala is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain. She specializes in poststructuralist thought, political anthropology, feminism, and psychoanalysis, and is the co-editor (with Gavin Rae) of The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics and Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives, both published by Routledge.