Description: Offers a reconfiguration of political reason from the perspective of the social performativity inherent in postfoundational theory.
Brief description: Gavin Rae is Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His research interests lie in nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, where he works at the intersection of socio-political philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, ontology, and ethics. Besides over sixty published articles and book chapters, he is the author of eight monographs, the most recent of which are The Politics of Reason: A Postfoundational Approach (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), and Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth Century Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He has also co-edited six volumes, the most recent of which are Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism (Routledge, 2025--with Cillian Ó Fathaigh), Philosophy across Borders (Routledge, 2025--with Emma Ingala), and Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (Routledge, 2021--with Emma Ingala).
Review Quotes: Writing with elegance and erudition, Rae provides a searching, novel and far-reaching analysis of our post-foundational predicament. Drawing on both the analytic and continental traditions, as well as psychoanalysis, this book remaps reason and unreason in service of a creative, collective vision of the political and its epistemology.--Sacha Golob, King's College London