Description: In the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This interest has entailed a focus on the role of language and discourse in the processes in and through which subjects are constituted in discourse. However, questions of agency and how it relates to consciousness have received less attention.
Review Quotes: The origin and development of human consciousness have always exercised attraction, through the debate until quite recently had been polarised between nature and nurture, brain and environment. In this book Paul Thibault brings a point of view informed on the one hand by recent developments in brain sciences and on the other by his deep understanding of human interaction which naturally occurs in the environments of human life. Displaying a balanced perspective between brain, body and social world, Paul Thibault, the author of the fascinating volume Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body, offers a thoroughly semiotic interpretation of interaction, and its role in the formation of human consciousness."