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Subjectivity and Identity: Between Modernity and Postmodernity - Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy
Professor Peter V. Zima
"This book is an augmented and updated translation by the author of Theorie des Subjekts: Subjectiviteat und Identiteat zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne, Teubingen, Francke-UTB, 2010 (3rd ed.)"--Title page verso.
Marc Notes: This is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates 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. Biographical Note: Peter V. Zima was Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria until 2012. He was elected corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna) in 1998 and member of the European Academy (London) in 2010. In 2014 he was appointed honorary professor of the East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Table of Contents: 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
Contributor Bio: Zima, Peter V 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.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 18, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781780937809 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 344 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 164 × 31 mm · 680 g |
| Language | English |
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