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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Claudia Brodsky (Princeton University, USA) and Eloy LaBrada (Middlebury College, USA) PART ONE. SUBJECTS 1. I Think, Therefore I Feel -- Marshall J. Brown (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) 2. Some Dark Interiority. A Brief Conceptual History -- Eduardo Lerro (Princeton University, USA) 3. Unsexing Subjects: Marie de Gournay on the Ontology of "Sex" -- Eloy LaBrada (Middlebury College, USA) PART TWO. CAUSALITIES 4. Shadows on the Wall of Reason: Diderot before Fragonard -- David Ferris (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA /Sebald Chair, University of East Anglia, UK) 5. Timely Plot and Unplotted Time: Action and Experience Before and After Hegel -- John Park (Princeton University, USA) 6. Unexpected yet Connected: On Aristotle's Poetics and its Heterodox Reception -- Karen Feldman (University of California at Berkeley, USA) 7. The Causal Economy of the Subject in Kant, Hegel and Marx: Being in Time an -- Externalization -- Irina Simova (Princeton University, USA) PART THREE. JUDGMENT 8. The Man Within the Breast: Sympathy, Deformity, and Moral Subjectivity in Adam Smith's -- The Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Paul Kelleher (Emory University, USA) 9. Judging, Inevitably: Aesthetic Judgment and Novelistic Form in Fielding's Joseph Andrews -- Vivasvan Soni (Northwestern University, USA) 10. The Linguistic Condition of Judgment: Kant's "Common Sense" -- Claudia Brodsky (Princeton University, USA) Index "Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. As new metaphysics of the realia of power and independently animated objects have replaced ancient conceptualizations of substance, being, and causation, the question of the "subject" -- of the capability for just such conceptual change, for acting to any effect whatsoever -- has reemerged with fresh critical urgency. Writing on theories and fictions of the subject from Aristotle to Althusser and Fielding to Flaubert, the contributors to Inventing Agency explore the unprecedented productions of the subject as agent -- of cognition, aesthetic experience and judgment, imagination and representation, and moral and political action -- that together define the "revolution" in reflection that Kant called "the Age of Critique." Informed by expertise in such interrelated fields as continental and analytic philosophy and literary history, Marxian and utopian theory, poetics and cultural criticism, moral theory and theory of sensibility, and feminist and disability studies, Inventing Agency addresses the invention of subjecthood by philosophical and literary conceptions of the specifically human capacities that continue to reveal the prospect of social-individual and historical-agency in action. This collection on the productions of the subject is vital reading for anyone engaged in thinking about where the categories of contemporary theory come from, and where they might lead next"-- "A state-of-the-art overview and reappraisal of the literary and philosophical origins of theory and, in particular, of modern subjectivity"--
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