Subjectivity / / editors, Willem van Reijen, Willem G. Weststeijn.

• Superior document: Avant garde critical studies ; 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Weststeijn, Willem G.,; Reijen, Willem van, 1938-
• Place / Publishing House: Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Avant-Garde Critical Studies 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: INTRODUCTION /; DYNAMICS OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE HISTORICAL AVANT-GARDE /; DADAIST SUBJECTIVITY AND THE POLITICS OF INDIFFERENCE: On some contrasts and correspondences between Dada in Zürich and Berlin /; SUBJECTIVITY IN A POST-COLONIAL SYMBOLIC THE ANXIETY OF JOYCE: /; PROUST AND SUBJECTIVITY /; A GLIMPSE OF THE SELF: Defence of subjectivity in Beckett and his later theatre /; THE SUBJECT IN MODERN RUSSIAN POETRY /; SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE: Mental Familiarity and Epistemic Self-Ascription /; TESTED TO THE BREAKING POINT: POSTMODERNITY IN MODERNITY /; THE RUSSIAN NOVEL AS A SERIAL MURDER OR THE POETICS OF BUREAUCRACY /; SUBJECTIVITY AS A BASIC PRESUPPOSITION OF MODERNITY IN MUSIC /; NEW SUBJECTIVITY IN CINEMA: THE VERTIGO OF STRANGE DAYS /; IT TAKES THREE TO EPISTEMOLOGY /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004333827
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: editors, Willem van Reijen, Willem G. Weststeijn.

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.