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Zusatztext Peter Zima has added another hugely impressive work to the corpus in which, over the past three decades, he has done so much to illuminate the sources and development of modern critical theory. Indeed this stands as something of a high-point and grand summation of his thinking to date. Although the topic is one much debated amongst the lingering heirs of multiple successive movements in European philosophy and intellectual history it has never previously been surveyed in such depth or with such a sustained power of critical and speculative thought. Altogether a notable achievement and a book that belongs among the classics in its genre. Informationen zum Autor Peter V. Zima is Professor of General and Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Vorwort Subjectivity and Identity presents an interdisciplinary theory of the subject based on philosophy, engaging critically with debates in critical theory, sociology and psychology. Zusammenfassung Subjectivity and Identity is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates critically the most important philosophical, sociological, psychological and literary debates on subjectivity and the subject. Starting from a history of the concept of the subject from modernity to postmodernity - from Descartes and Kant to Adorno and Lyotard - Peter V. Zima distinguishes between individual, collective, mythical and other subjects.Most texts on subjectivity and the subject present the topic from the point of view of a single discipline: philosophy, sociology, psychology or theory of literature. In Subjectivity and Identity Zima links philosophical approaches to those of sociology, psychology and literary criticism. The link between philosophy and sociology is social philosophy (e.g. Althusser, Marcuse, Habermas), the link between philosophy and literary criticism is aesthetics (e.g. Adorno, Lyotard, Vattimo). Philosophy and psychology can be related thanks to the psychological implications of several philosophical concepts of subjectivity (Hobbes, Stirner, Sartre). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. Theories of the Subject: Terminology and Contemporary Debates 2. Subjectivity between Metaphysics and Modernism: The Subject as a Fundamental, Subjugated and Disintegrating Entity3. Disintegration and Subjugation of the Individual Subject in Postmodernity: Philosophy and Psychology4. The Dialectics of Individual Subjectivity in Sociology5. Theory of the Subject: Towards a Dialogical SubjectivityBibliographyIndex...
