The Persistence of Subjectivity

Abstract

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.

Algunas consideraciones sobre la relación entre los Principios de la filosofía del derecho y la Ciencia de la lógica. Una aproximación desde Slavoj Žižek

“…En definitiva, y siguiendo la distinción que realiza Pippin (2005) entre el pensamiento del propio Hegel en su época del Hegel con quien podemos pensar nuestro propio tiempo, es igual de relevante enfrentar abiertamente las consecuencias del pensamiento hegeliano y desde dicho ejercicio obtener luces para el mundo contemporáneo. Este esfuerzo por leer la actualidad desde la obra del filosofo de Stuttgart, si se quiere pensar bajo los términos 8 […] sacrificing the true substance of the work to the objective of a bold cleanup of the text".…”

The Infinity of Freedom——On Education of the Individual in Hegel’s Absolute Spirit

“…It follows that art, at least the ancient and medieval art of which Hegel spoke, can only be fully and effectively understood in relation to the religious spirit of the nation from which it originated. [5]It is only when art acquires a spiritualization that it emerges an understanding that goes beyond the mere pleasure of the form of beauty and is able to interpret it as a form of expression. Hegel, for example, situated ancient sculpture and drama, Gothic architecture and the Italian art of painting in the context of the religious spirit prevalent at the time.…”

Geography and ethics III

“…The utility of resources drawn from analytical traditions of theorizing action and intentionality to the reconstruction of critical theory may appear less surprising once the shared reference to pragmatism, phenomenology and theories of recognition is acknowledged (see Honneth, 2010b; Ikäheimo and Laitinen, 2011; Mendieta, 2007; Pippin, 2005, 2006). Honneth, for example, draws on Deweyian pragmatism in developing an account of the immanent emergence of normative principles of critique in social practices.…”