EAN: 9783034307079

CREATING ONESELF - MIRI ROZMARIN KARTONIERT (TB)

The question of individual agency lies at the heart of any political and social theory aiming
to analyse the social conditions that shape reality. Drawing mainly on the works of Luce
Irigaray  Judith Butler  Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze  this book endeavours to provide an
account of agency as a mode of life in which social transformation and personal transformation
meet and influence one another. The book describes the shortcomings of associating agency with
resisting social norms or institutions  arguing that agency  as a way of life  is a dynamic of
self-creation inspired by a horizon of well-being. As part of this new account of agency the
book re-evaluates several key concepts  thus far under-theorized in poststructural theory.
First  it addresses the question of how we might understand well-being within a post-modern
framework. Second  it presents a notion of 'desire to be'  designating the motivational force
that drives people to act in order to create a differentworld. And finally  it addresses the
question of how a life of transformative political practices might constitute a sense of
identity  both individual and collective.

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