Subject: Avant Garde Critical Studies  SUBJECTIVITY. 
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:36:54 +0200


SUBJECTIVITY.


REIJEN, Willem van and Willem G. WESTSTEIJN (Eds.)
Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 1999 VI,330 pp.
Hb: 90-420-0738-9 Hfl. 182 / US$ 77
Pb: 90-420-0728-1 Hfl. 65 / US$ 28

Series:
Avant Garde Critical Studies 12




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.
Contents:
Introduction
Mario MORONI: Dynamics of Subjectivity in the Historical Avant-Garde
Hubert van den BERG: Dadaist Subjectivity and the Politics of Indifference.
On Some Contrasts and Correspondences between Dada in Zürich and Berlin
Christine van BOHEEMEN: Subjectivity in a Post-Colonial Symbolic. The
Anxiety of Joyce
Annelies SCHULTE NORDHOLT: Proust and Subjectivity
Matthijs ENGELBERTS: A Glimpse of the Self. Defence of Subjectivity in
Beckett and his Later Theatre
Willem G. WESTSTEIJN: The Subject in Modern Russian Poetry
Manfred FRANK: Self-Awareness and Self-Knowledge. Mental Familiarity and
Epistemic Self-Ascription
Willem van REIJEN: Tested to the Breaking Point: Postmodernity in Modernity
Boris GROYS: The Russian Novel as a Serial Murder or The Poetics of
Bureaucracy
Albrecht von MASSOW: Subjectivity as a Basic Presupposition of Modernity in
Music
Patricia PISTERS: New Subjectivity in Cinema. The Vertigo of Strange Days
Saskia KERSENBOOM: It Takes Three to Epistemology

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