The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath

by Robert B. Pippin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052184858X
• ISBN13: 9780521848589
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"