Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida [Paperback]

Transversal Subjects, now in paperback, proposes a combined theory of consciousness, subjectivity and agency stemming from analyses of junctures in Western philosophical and critical discourses that have greatly influenced the development of present-day understandings of perception, identity, desire, mimesis, aesthetics, education and human rights.Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Subjective Affects: Surveying with Husserl, Shakespeare, and Derrida into the Twenty-First Century; B.Reynolds (with additional dialogue by B.Reynolds and G.Light) The Masochistic Quest of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Deleuze and Guattari to Transversal Poetics with(out) Baudrillard; A.Bryx?and B.Reynolds The Cartographic Impulse: Certeau's Transversality, Foucault's Panoptic Discourse, Cusa's Empiricism, and Google's New World; J.Fitzpatrick and B.Reynolds Fugitive Rehearsals: The Ferality of Kaspar Hauser, Playground Performances, and the Transversality of Children; B.Reynolds and D.Sherman Civilizing Subjects, or Not: Montaigne's Guide to Modernity, Agamben's Exception, and Human Rights after Derrida; A.KLosowska?and B.Reynolds Afterword: Subjects Matter; G.Genosko Glossary of Transversal Terms Notes on Collaborators Index

'This book is a treasure trove of sparkling new ideas, new connections and new directions. In short, it is the perfect example of its own topic, namely transversality. It has a singular and distinctive voice, yet that voice is collectively and collaboratively enunciated so the one is always the many. It is a stunning performance that ranges the length and breadth of modernity and postmodernity.' - Ian Buchanan, Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK, and Editor, Deleuze Studies

'Bryan Reynolds and company have done it again. Here they use phenomenology, hermeneutics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and schizoanalysis to cross various subjectivities. They explore gene-like (or virus-like) memes, ulă#