The decentred autonomous subject
pp. 155-175
in: Rafael Winkler (ed), Identity and difference, Berlin, Springer, 2016Abstract
According to the post-structuralist critique of the subject, we can no longer properly understand ourselves as a unified, sovereign subject, insofar as the overriding experience we have of ourselves is that of a decentred self, a subject that is constantly in process of becoming. While many feminists support this claim, others argue that endorsing it makes it impossible to develop an account of autonomy or political emancipation.