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32 - Philosophy
Kingston University
Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique
Materials in the book first published within this REF cycle are:
Foreword: (31 pp.) – 2011
Ch. 3: (26 pp.) – 2010
Ch. 6: (23 pp.) – 2008
Ch. 7: (29 pp.) – 2008
Ch. 8: (19 pp.) – 2010
Ch. 10: (12 pp.) – 2008/2011
Ch. 13: (26 pp.) – 2009
Conclusion: 465–515 (50 pp.) – 2011
= 218 pp in total / 8 out of 15 chapters
This volume constructs a philosophical history of the ‘citizen subject’ whereby the traditional notion of the ‘subject’ as subjectus or ‘dependent person’ was displaced and overcome by an equalitarian notion of a subject as a free citizen. The philosophical method is the analysis of texts as ‘writings in the conjuncture’, whereby long-term genealogies of concepts are subjected to present aporias. The importance of translation and the untranslatable are stressed as intrinsic aspects of philosophical thought. The result is a shift from the controversy over humanism to a controversy over universalism, justifying a return to the notion of ‘philosophical anthropology’.
