Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction - Softcover

Meredith, Fionola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 134952252X ISBN 13: 9781349522521

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Synopsis

This book charts and challenges the bruising impact of post-Saussurean thought on the categories of experience and self-presence. It attempts a reappropriation of the category of lived experience in dialogue with poststructuralist thinking. Following the insight that mediated subjectivity need not mean alienated selfhood, Meredith forwards a postmetaphysical model of the experiential based on the interpenetration of poststructuralist thinking and hermeneutic phenomenology. Since poststructuralist approaches in feminist theory have often placed women's lived experiences 'under erasure', Meredith uses this hermeneutic/deconstructive model to attempt a rehabilitation of the singular 'flesh and blood' female existent.

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About the Author

Having received her PhD in 2001 from Queen's University Belfast, FIONOLA MEREDITH works as a freelance writer for The Irish Times and Fortnight, Northern Ireland's journal of politics, arts and culture, where she sits on the editorial board. She is also a broadcaster and critic, contributing regularly to BBC Northern Ireland programmes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 134952252X
• ISBN 13: 9781349522521
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254