The New Humanities: In Search of Boundaries
The New Humanities: In Search of Boundaries
Author(s): Agata Bielik-RobsonContributor(s): David Schauffler (Translator)
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Sociology, Contemporary Philosophy, Existentialism, Marxism, Culture and social structure , Social Theory, Phenomenology, Translation Studies, Sociology of Law, Philosophy of History
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: New Humanities; Posthumanism; The Frankfurt School; Michel Foucault; Jacques Derrida; Karl Marx; Martin Heidegger;
Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to discuss the philosophical contexts and meaning of the new humanities in the context of the philosophy of subjectivity. At the foundation of the new humanities, as it is argued, is not enlightenment, but Heidegger’s thought, with his excoriating critique of modern subjectivity and its Machenschaft. The article points to the foundational hubris that the new humanities oppose, and to the attempt to reinstall the subject within fixed boundaries. The new humanities, and posthumanism in particular, might backlash with violence against civilisation, comparable to that they endeavour to renounce. In order to manoeuvre through these convoluted figures of subjectivity, the article supports its theses with insightful readings of Hölderlin and Adorno.
Journal: ER(R)GO. Teoria-Literatura-Kultura
- Issue Year: 1/2022
- Issue No: 44
- Page Range: 199-215
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English