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The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert B. Pippin
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:380
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 162
Category/GenreHistory of Western philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780521613040
ClassificationsDewey:193 126 126
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 2 May 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Reviews

'... Pippin is one of the most original and imaginative philosophers now at work. ... I can think of no other philosopher writing today who is so consistently illuminating on such a wide range of topics. We can learn a lot from Pippin.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews