Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject

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Contents
Introduction
	I Subjects
	II Causalities
	III Judgment
Part One Subjects
	Chapter 1 I Think, Therefore I Feel
	Chapter 2 Some Dark Interiority: A Brief Conceptual History
	Chapter 3 Unsexing Subjects: Marie de Gournay’s Philosophy of Sex Eliminativism
		1 Introduction
		2 Subjects of debate
		3 Gournay
		4 Gournay’s major claims
		5 Conclusion
Part Two Causalities
	Chapter 4 Shadows on the Wall of Reason: Diderot before Fragonard
	Chapter 5 Timely Plot and Unplotted Time: Action and Experience Before and After Hegel
		1 Deixis and allegory in Clarissa
		2 Consciousness as Phenomenology of Spirit:Allegories of the “here” and “now”
		3 Flaubert and narrative time
	Chapter 6 Unexpected yet Connected: On Aristotle’s Poetics and its Heterodox Receptions
		1 Introduction
		2 Heterodox katharsis
		3 Didacticism and universals
		4 Pleasure and aesthetics
		5 Pleasures of the unexpected
		6 Conclusion: Allegories of reception
	Chapter 7 The Causal Economy of the Subject in Kant, Hegel, and Marx: Being in Time and Externalization
		1 The subject as temporal relation:Kant’s model of Dasein in der Zeit
		2 Hegel’s subject and concept as historicalformations
		3 Alienation as a principle of subjectformation in Hegel
		4 Alienation and misrecognition as the structuralcausality of the social
		5 Blindness and insight. Marx’s reappropriationof the model of externalization
		6 Conclusions
Part Three Judgment
	Chapter 8 The Man Within the Breast: Sympathy, Deformity, and Moral Subjectivity in Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments
		1 Face to face
		2 Beauty and deformity
		3 Imagining morality
		4 A stronger love
	Chapter 9 Judging, Inevitably: Aesthetic Judgment and Novelistic Form in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews
	Chapter 10 The Linguistic Condition of Judgment: Kant’s “Common Sense”
		1 Verbal action in Kant
		2 Judgment and “Indeterminacy”
		3 Speech
		4 The “postulation” of “a general voice”
Index