Subjectivity and identity : between modernity and postmodernity

Content: Cover page
 Halftitle page
 Series page
 Title page
 Copyright page
 Dedication
 Contents
 Preface
 I Theories of the Subject: Definitions of the Term and the State of the Debate
 1 The concept of subject and the subject of theory
 (a) Individual and collective subjects in society and language
 (b) Subject and actant: Infra-individual, individual, artificial and supra-individual actants as subjects
 (c) Individual and collective subjects as discursive instances: Subjectivity, individuality, identity
 (d) The subject of theory
 2 The state of the debate (A) From existentialism to postmodernity: Philosophy(b) From the lonely crowd to the social movement: Sociology
 (c) From psychoanalysis and the theory of personality to social psychology: The discontent in culture and society
 (d) Individual subjectivity in linguistics and the theory of literature
 3 Aporias of the individual subject in modernity and postmodernity
 Notes
 II Subjectivity Between Metaphysics and Modernism: The Subject as a Fundamental, Subjugated and Disintegrating Instance
 1 Subjectivity from Descartes and Kant to Fichte: 'Monsieur Teste' 2 From Hegel to Marxism: Omnipotence and impotence of the subject3 Vischer, Stirner and Kierkegaard as critics of Hegel: Particularity, contingency, chance and dream
 4 Nietzsche's criticism of the metaphysical concept of subject: Ambivalence, particularization and nature
 5 From Nietzsche and Kierkegaard to Sartre: Sartre's critique of surrealism and psychoanalysis
 6 From Nietzsche to Critical Theory: Subjectivity, mimesis, alterity
 7 Adorno, Freud and Broch: The 'weakness of the I', the 'discontent in civilization' and the 'theory of mass hysteria' 8 The crisis of the subject in the literature of modernism: Nature and contingency as menace and liberation9 From modernism to postmodernism: A Clockwork Orange
 Notes
 III Disintegration and Submission of the Individual Subject in Postmodernity: Philosophy and Psychology
 1 From Adorno to Lyotard: The ambivalence of the sublime between modernity and postmodernity
 2 The linguistic subversion of subjects: Between iterability and iterativity
 3 From Laing to Vattimo: 'Divided self ' and sogget to scisso
 4 From Laing to Goff man and Foucault: Stigmatization and organized experience 5 Ideological reification and 'normalization' of the subject: From Foucault and Althusser to 'normalism'6 From Althusser to Lacan: The 'decentred subject' as a subjugated and disintegrating instance
 7 Psychosociology of narcissism: The individual subject in postmodern indifference
 8 Feminist concepts of subjectivity between modernity and postmodernity: From Virginia Woolf to dialogical subjectivity
 Notes
 IV The Dialectics of Individual Subjectivity from a Sociological Viewpoint
 1 The crisis of individual subjectivity in late modern sociology