Beyond the search for the subject: an anti-essentialist ontology for liberal democracy
Reading Foucault’s work on power and subjectivity alongside “developmentalist” approaches to evolutionary biology, this article endorses poststructuralist critiques of political ideals grounded in the value of subjective agency. Many political theorists embrace such critiques, of course, but those w...
Main Author: | Bagg, S |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2018
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