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.

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.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION / Willem van Reijen and Willem G. Weststeijn -- DYNAMICS OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE HISTORICAL AVANT-GARDE / Mario Moroni -- DADAIST SUBJECTIVITY AND THE POLITICS OF INDIFFERENCE: On some contrasts and correspondences between Dada in Zürich and Berlin / Hubert van den Berg -- SUBJECTIVITY IN A POST-COLONIAL SYMBOLIC THE ANXIETY OF JOYCE: / Christine van Boheemen -- PROUST AND SUBJECTIVITY / Annelies Schulte Nordholt -- A GLIMPSE OF THE SELF: Defence of subjectivity in Beckett and his later theatre / Matthijs Engelberts -- THE SUBJECT IN MODERN RUSSIAN POETRY / Willem G. Weststeijn -- SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE: Mental Familiarity and Epistemic Self-Ascription / Manfred Frank -- TESTED TO THE BREAKING POINT: POSTMODERNITY IN MODERNITY / Willem van Reijen -- THE RUSSIAN NOVEL AS A SERIAL MURDER OR THE POETICS OF BUREAUCRACY / Boris Groys -- SUBJECTIVITY AS A BASIC PRESUPPOSITION OF MODERNITY IN MUSIC / Albrecht von Massow -- NEW SUBJECTIVITY IN CINEMA: THE VERTIGO OF STRANGE DAYS / Patricia Pisters -- IT TAKES THREE TO EPISTEMOLOGY / Saskia Kersenboom.