Cut of the Real by Katerina Kolozova PAPERBACK 9780231166119

Cut of the RealSubjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy\nAuthor(s): Katerina Kolozova\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231166119, 978-0231166119\nSynopsis\nFollowing Franois Laruelle's nonstandard philosophy and the work of Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Luce Irigaray, and Rosi Braidotti, Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered \""unthinkable\"" by postmodern feminist philosophies, such as \""the real,\"" \""the one,\"" \""the limit,\"" and \""finality,\"" thus critically repositioning poststructuralist feminist philosophy and gender/queer studies.\n\nPoststructuralist (feminist) theory sees the subject as a purely linguistic category, as always already multiple, as always already nonfixed and fluctuating, as limitless discursivity, and as constitutively detached from the instance of the real. This reconceptualization is based on the exclusion of and dichotomous .