{"product_id":"being-subjects-preliminary-materials-of-the-person-hardcover","title":"Being Subjects: Preliminary Materials of the Person - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Moufawad-Paul\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concept of the subject remains one of the most important and debated notions in social theory and philosophy. Whether it is adopted as a central notion of personhood or rejected as a product of ideology or fiction, its usage has been a theme in a variety of political and speculative thought. Unfortunately, the prevalence of the term has often rendered its meaning opaque. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeing Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e examines the history of this notion from Descartes to the present and discusses its emergence as a philosophical category as well as its connection to related notions such as essence and being. Drawing from the tradition of Fanon's revolutionary existentialism and a historical materialist approach to thought, J. Moufawad-Paul argues that despite the rejection of the subject by thinkers such as Althusser and Foucault, thinking the subject remains a meaningful philosophical practice for a politics dedicated to radical social transformation. If we can think through the category of the subject, we can also think through the legacy of modernity which includes settler-colonialism, slavery, and capitalism. We can also think through a conception of transformative subjectivity and the path to a new personhood and collective agency beyond this legacy's weight of dead generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Moufawad-Paul\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of philosophy at York University and is the author of \u003ci\u003eContinuity and Rupture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Necessity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolitics in Command\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47475854835890,"sku":"9798881803728","price":153.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/9a9c9d47264c1af69cd80bf867920d06.webp?v=1779176743","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/being-subjects-preliminary-materials-of-the-person-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}