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Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self

Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

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  • © 2005

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  1. Fionola Meredith
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Fionola Meredith
    Pages 1-4

  3. Difference and Undecidability

    • Fionola Meredith
    Pages 5-40

  4. Woman as Text

    • Fionola Meredith
    Pages 41-79

  5. The Post-structuralist Erasure of Experience

    • Fionola Meredith
    Pages 80-110

  6. Frameworks for Experience

    • Fionola Meredith
    Pages 111-156

  7. ‘It’s me here’: Writing the Singular Self, Writing the Postdeconstructive Female Self

    • Fionola Meredith
    Pages 157-196

  8. Conclusion

    • Fionola Meredith
    Pages 197-200

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 201-246
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About this book

This book charts and challenges the bruising impact of post-Saussurean thought on the categories of experience and self-presence. It attempts a reappropriation of the category of lived experience in dialogue with poststructuralist thinking. Following the insight that mediated subjectivity need not mean alienated selfhood, Meredith forwards a postmetaphysical model of the experiential based on the interpenetration of poststructuralist thinking and hermeneutic phenomenology. Since poststructuralist approaches in feminist theory have often placed women's lived experiences 'under erasure', Meredith uses this hermeneutic/deconstructive model to attempt a rehabilitation of the singular 'flesh and blood' female existent.

About the author

Having received her PhD in 2001 from Queen's University Belfast, FIONOLA MEREDITH works as a freelance writer for The Irish Times and Fortnight, Northern Ireland's journal of politics, arts and culture, where she sits on the editorial board. She is also a broadcaster and critic, contributing regularly to BBC Northern Ireland programmes.

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