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Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics

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  1. Johannes Beetz

    1. University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom

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  • Systematically investigates the relation between material instances and the subject in contemporary social and cultural theories
  • Offers a convincing materialist account of subjectivity drawing on Marxism, structuralist (or post-structuralist) theory, and semiotics
  • Conceives of materiality as multiple, complex, and not reducible to tangible matter

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Johannes Beetz
    Pages 1-8

  3. Prelude: The Cartesian Subject and German Idealism

    • Johannes Beetz
    Pages 9-20

  4. The Materiality of Conditions and the Subject of Ideology

    • Johannes Beetz
    Pages 21-47

  5. Structural Causality and Material Ideology

    • Johannes Beetz
    Pages 49-72

  6. The Materiality of Language and the Decentered Subject

    • Johannes Beetz
    Pages 73-107

  7. Material Semiotics and the Rhizomatic Subject

    • Johannes Beetz
    Pages 109-135

  8. Conclusion

    • Johannes Beetz
    Pages 137-140

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 141-143
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About this book

In recent decades, what is known as 'the subject' has been problematized by various old and new materialisms and today appears as decentered in and by language, split by the unconscious, deformed by social forces, governed by ideology and is either seen to have succumbed to the postmodern condition or to never have existed in the first place. Every materialist theory of the subject depends on a conception of materiality, which can delineate the character of what the material reality, which de-centers or constitutes the subject consists of. Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics investigates the relation between materiality and the subject in the materialist approaches of Marxism, (post-)structuralism, and material semiotics. None of these approaches subscribes to a reductionist materialism; rather, they conceive of materiality as multiple, complex, and not reducible to tangible matter. For each approach, the modalities of materiality of the respective materialism are defined. The relationship between the multiple materialities and the subject constituted and decentered in this relationship are presented as specific to the theoretical approaches discussed.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    Johannes Beetz

About the author

Johannes Beetz is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. He studied sociology, philosophy, and American studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. His research interests include Critical Theory & Marxism, Discourse Studies, and Post-Structuralist Theory.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics

  • Authors: Johannes Beetz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59837-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59836-3Published: 31 August 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95584-8Published: 10 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59837-0Published: 20 August 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 143

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Theory, Poststructuralism, Semiotics

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