Subjectivity (Avant-Garde Critical Studies, 12) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042007389 ISBN 13: 9789042007383

Publisher: Brill, 1999

Synopsis

Subjectivity is one of the central issues of twentieth-century philosophy, literature and art. Modernism, which “discovered” the subconscious, put an end to the belief in the Cartesian Subject as the autonomous centre of knowledge and self-consciousness. Instead, the subject became something uncontrollable, unreliable, incomplete and fragmentary. The attempts to recapture the unity of the subject led to the existential quest and the flight into ideology (nazism, communism).
Postmodernism, the cultural movement of the second half of the twentieth century, did not consider the subject any longer as an important category. Attention was focused on the “I” and the “Other”, on dialogism and polyphonism (Bakhtin). Ideology lost its appeal and so did the “great” stories (Lyotard).
In this issue of Avant-Garde Critical Studies the problem of subjectivity in twentieth-century culture is discussed from various angles by specialists in the field of philosophy, literature, film, music and dance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042007389
• ISBN 13: 9789042007383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Reijen Willem Van, Weststeijn Willem G.