Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/4iT5W5 The Persistence of Subjectivity By: Robert B. Pippin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Print ISBN: 9780521848589, 052184858X eText ISBN: 9780511114182, 0511114184 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 28.00 USD SKU 9780511114182 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.
