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Structure and Agency

ByJ.P. Goss

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How do we define structure? And for that matter, agency? There are certain inescapable forces that both the social reality imposes on the human, effectively generating what we know as ‘man’ or ‘humankind.’ Our tongues enable us to communicate and to know exactly what we are. Yet, there is, indispensably, the ability to step back from such forces, to even step back from identity. This is agency. Reality is brought to us through typifications and habituation. This is structure. This is the dialectic: structure and agency. In this collection of short stories, Goss explores this dialectic wherein the agent is confronted with the force of society. It was his intent to create stories whose DNA was formed with an ounce controversy and at least something to upset what we know as “social reality.” He wanted to step back and write something different.

Details

Publication Date
Aug 22, 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781312454569
Category
Fiction
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): J.P. Goss

Specifications

Pages
230
Binding
Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm)

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