Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of CompositionAn assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political and technological upheavals of the past 30 years, Fragments of Rationality asks why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines. For Lester Faigley, the very conservativism of composition teaching - which has resisted the challenges of postmodern thought - makes it a revealing object of study. |
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... individual are frequently conflated . The first notion of the individual is the subject of high modernism : a co- herent consciousness capable of knowing oneself and the world . In the works of the famous authors and thinkers of high ...
... individual are frequently conflated . The first notion of the individual is the subject of high modernism : a co- herent consciousness capable of knowing oneself and the world . In the works of the famous authors and thinkers of high ...
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... individual , either the freely choosing individual of capitalism or the interpellated individual of Althusserian Marxism , postmod- ern theory understands subjectivity as heterogeneous and constantly in flux . The present frustration of ...
... individual , either the freely choosing individual of capitalism or the interpellated individual of Althusserian Marxism , postmod- ern theory understands subjectivity as heterogeneous and constantly in flux . The present frustration of ...
Page 231
... individual- ism from political theorists that parallels the critique of the autonomous in- dividual writer in composition studies . Young notes that political theorists writing in the 1980s such as Michael Sandel and Benjamin Barber ...
... individual- ism from political theorists that parallels the critique of the autonomous in- dividual writer in composition studies . Young notes that political theorists writing in the 1980s such as Michael Sandel and Benjamin Barber ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
In the Turbulence of Theory | 25 |
The Changing Political Landscape of Composition Studies | 48 |
Copyright | |
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