Psychē: On the Sentient Subject.
This article advances a theory of the subject grounded in Aristotle's conception of psychē (ἡ ψυχή, mistranslated as the soul) that corrects the depiction of 'life' as the purported foundation of the condemned biopolitical subject in Agamben's figure of "bare life." Neither bare nor reducible to hum...
| Publicado en: | Modern Fiction Studies Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 704 - 729 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall2025
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