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The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath

By Robert B. Pippin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0521613043, 9780521613040, 052184858X, 9780521848589, 9780511115813
LCC
BD438.5 .P57 2005
Open Library ID
OL22626221M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1467252 bytes)
Pages
380\381
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to and critiques of the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, ''bourgeois'' form of life: the free, reflective, self-determining subject. Since it is a relatively recent historical development that human beings think of themselves as individual centers of agency, and that one's entitlement to such a self-determining life is absolutely valuable, the issue at stake also involves the question of the historical location of philosophy. What might it mean to take seriously Hegel's claim that philosophical reflection is always reflection on the historical ''actuality'' of its own age? Discussing Heidegger, Gadamer, Adorno, Leo Strauss, Manfred Frank, and John McDowell, Robert Pippin attempts to understand how subjectivity arises in contemporary institutional practices such as medicine, as well as in other contexts such as modernism in the visual arts and in the novels of Marcel Proust.

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