Post-Subjectivity

Modern thinkers have often declared the end, or even the death, of the subject and have been searching for new ways of being a self. Indeed, many contemporary scholars regard this search as one of the most significant effects of the general crisis of secularity. Post-Subjectivity is a contribution to that search, conducted with a renewed attention to the centrality of religion, in a pluralistic and global context. This volume of essays guides the reader through, but also beyond, the crises of modernity and postmodernity, toward an attempt to resurrect the subject in new forms. The volume resonates with voices from across the humanistic disciplines: the theological turn in recent phenomenology, new directions in Christian and Jewish theology, and reappraisals of figures in the history of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the study of sexuality all are represented in an attempt to rethink, from the beginning, what it is to be a self. TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 INTRODUCTION 8 POST-SUBJECTIVITY AND HISTORICALCONSCIOUSNESS 16 SELF AND TIME 24 DOES TRUTH REQUIRE A SUBJECT? 38 IS A WORLD-ETHIC POSSIBLE?POSING THE QUESTIONPHENOMENOLOGICALLY 46 TIME TRAVEL 60 AGAPEIC SELVINGAND THE PASSION OF BEING 84 “TILL THE END OF LOVE” 110 BEING THE LOVER 128 NEOSEXUALITIES AND SELF-SEX 144 FREEDOM AND SUBJECTIVITY 170 THINKING SUBJECTIVITY AFTER HEIDEGGER 190 FREEDOM, SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE STATEIN HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT 208 ON THE SUBJECT OF THE DIVINE 228 CONTRIBUTORS 250 Edited By Christoph Schmidt With Merav Mack And Andy R. German. Many Of The Papers In This Volume Were First Presented At The Conference 'the Resurrection Of The Subject: Subjectivity And Post-subjectivity In The Age Of The Post-secular, ' Held December 22-23, 2009--page 7. Includes Bibliographical References.