ŠMĖKLIŠKAS SUBJEKTAS: DIFFÉRANCE (A/E)FEKTAI
THE SPECTRAL SUBJECT: THE (A/E)FFECTS OF DIFFÉRANCE

Summary/Abstract: This article is a response to Derrida’s encouragement to “rehabilitate” the subject of Western philosophy. Because of that, on the one hand, the article offers a critique and revision of the classical concept of the subject; on the other hand, it attempts to (re)construct the alternative notion of the subject. To achieve these goals, the potential of Derridean poststructuralism and affect theory (mostly its Deleuzian version) is employed. Those two philosophical approaches are viewed as questioning (each in a different manner) the traditional concept of the subject as well as endeavors to develop a new and original one. The critique/revision of the concept of the subject is implemented from three perspectives: conceptual, phenomenological and ontological. By such a “mixed” approach, it is attempted to demonstrate that, despite theoretical, conceptual and practical differences, poststructuralism and affect theory generally identify the same problematical areas of the classical notion of the subject.

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