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Author:   Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland) ,  Gavin Rae (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032364308

ISBN 10:   1032364300
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Introduction: Agency and Poststructuralism Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Gavin Rae Part I: Ethics 1. The Immanence of Desire: Subjectivity and Agency in Anti-Oedipus Sean Bowden 2. Agency and the Imaginary: Lacan, Irigaray, Castoriadis Gavin Rae 3. What Can Subjects Do? Judith Butler’s Notion of Agency Emma Ingala 4. Reading Agency in Suspension: Derrida and the Undecideable Lisa Foran Part II: History and Aesthetics 5. “Something Will Turn Up”: Why Derrida Remains Trapped in Modernity Sacha Golob 6. What is an Event to a Subject? What is a Subject to an Event? Musical Folds Michael Székely Part III: Politics 7. Foucault’s Agentive Discharge Luke Collison 8. Political Plasticity: Catherine Malabou’s Anarchic Agents Cillian Ó Fathaigh

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Cillian Ó Fathaigh is an Assistant Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow in Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland. He is the co-editor of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship (2022), and his work has been published in Angelaki, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, and Derrida Today. Gavin Rae is an Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His most recent books are Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (2024) and Poststructuralist Agency (2020).

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