Worldly acts and sentient things : the persistence of agency from Stein to DeLillo /
"In Worldly Acts and Sentient Things Robert Chodat exposes a major shortcoming in recent accounts of twentieth-century discourse. What is often seen as the "death" of agency is better described as the displacement of agency onto new and varied entities." "Worldly Acts and Se...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : French cathedrals and other forms of life
- Sense, science, and slight contacts with other people's minds
- Embodiment and the inside
- The prose of persons
- Selves, sentences, and the styles of holism
- Embodiment and the outside
- The culture and its loaded words
- Conclusion : person and presence, stories and theories.
