León Rozitchner, 1924–2011: Politics and subjectivity, head-to-head

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Subject (Re-/decentred): From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (2)

Dossier: From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought

Dossier From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (2) Subject (Re-/decentred) alain de libera1 Modern French thought, ‘structuralism’, ‘poststructuralism’, ‘postmodernism’, Marxism as well, are currently associated with the so-called ‘death of the subject’. Foucault’s ‘anti-humanism’, the celebrated ‘death of Man’, the declining popularity of the rational, Kantian, transcendantal subject, reigning over what Lyotard called […]