
Subjectivity
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-90-420-0728-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0728-4 (9789042007284)
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Content
Introduction
Mario MORONI: Dynamics of Subjectivity in the Historical Avant-Garde
Hubert van den BERG: Dadaist Subjectivity and the Politics of Indifference. On Some Contrasts and Correspondences between Dada in Zuerich and Berlin
Christine van BOHEEMEN: Subjectivity in a Post-Colonial Symbolic. The Anxiety of Joyce
Annelies SCHULTE NORDHOLT: Proust and Subjectivity
Matthijs ENGELBERTS: A Glimpse of the Self. Defence of Subjectivity in Beckett and his Later Theatre
Willem G. WESTSTEIJN: The Subject in Modern Russian Poetry
Manfred FRANK: Self-Awareness and Self-Knowledge. Mental Familiarity and Epistemic Self-Ascription
Willem van REIJEN: Tested to the Breaking Point: Postmodernity in Modernity
Boris GROYS: The Russian Novel as a Serial Murder or The Poetics of Bureaucracy
Albrecht von MASSOW: Subjectivity as a Basic Presupposition of Modernity in Music
Patricia PISTERS: New Subjectivity in Cinema. The Vertigo of Strange Days
Saskia KERSENBOOM: It Takes Three to Epistemology
Mario MORONI: Dynamics of Subjectivity in the Historical Avant-Garde
Hubert van den BERG: Dadaist Subjectivity and the Politics of Indifference. On Some Contrasts and Correspondences between Dada in Zuerich and Berlin
Christine van BOHEEMEN: Subjectivity in a Post-Colonial Symbolic. The Anxiety of Joyce
Annelies SCHULTE NORDHOLT: Proust and Subjectivity
Matthijs ENGELBERTS: A Glimpse of the Self. Defence of Subjectivity in Beckett and his Later Theatre
Willem G. WESTSTEIJN: The Subject in Modern Russian Poetry
Manfred FRANK: Self-Awareness and Self-Knowledge. Mental Familiarity and Epistemic Self-Ascription
Willem van REIJEN: Tested to the Breaking Point: Postmodernity in Modernity
Boris GROYS: The Russian Novel as a Serial Murder or The Poetics of Bureaucracy
Albrecht von MASSOW: Subjectivity as a Basic Presupposition of Modernity in Music
Patricia PISTERS: New Subjectivity in Cinema. The Vertigo of Strange Days
Saskia KERSENBOOM: It Takes Three to Epistemology