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6 The End of Flânerie? The Sovereign Subject and Precarious City Life in Ian McEwan’s Saturday

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Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
This chapter is in the book Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgments V
  3. Contents VII
  4. 1 The Return of the Flâneur 1
  5. 2 Flânerie and its Discontents 13
  6. 3 Michel Foucault’s Ethics of the Self 69
  7. 4 Judith Butler’s Precarious Subjects 88
  8. 5 Synopsis: Ethical Subjects and the Flânerie Text 105
  9. 6 The End of Flânerie? The Sovereign Subject and Precarious City Life in Ian McEwan’s Saturday 111
  10. 7 Flânerie as Technique of the Self 132
  11. 8 City Matters: Affect and Media in Precarious Performances of Subjectivity 203
  12. 9 Conclusion 270
  13. Works Cited 278
  14. Index 296
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767490-007

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgments V
  3. Contents VII
  4. 1 The Return of the Flâneur 1
  5. 2 Flânerie and its Discontents 13
  6. 3 Michel Foucault’s Ethics of the Self 69
  7. 4 Judith Butler’s Precarious Subjects 88
  8. 5 Synopsis: Ethical Subjects and the Flânerie Text 105
  9. 6 The End of Flânerie? The Sovereign Subject and Precarious City Life in Ian McEwan’s Saturday 111
  10. 7 Flânerie as Technique of the Self 132
  11. 8 City Matters: Affect and Media in Precarious Performances of Subjectivity 203
  12. 9 Conclusion 270
  13. Works Cited 278
  14. Index 296
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