The starting point on the subject is that almost all philosophical
orientations today, even if they strongly oppose each other, agree on some kind
of basic anti-subjectivist stance. ‘The subject is ossifying’, although not yet
a clamour has become a consensus view. The feeling is that the dynamism of the
subject has exhausted itself and is now in terminal decline. Some suggest the
subject, or self, if not dead, is in an ‘oxygen tent’
and we are beginning to
become haunted by its gradual disappearance. Bearing in mind
the tide of subjection we face round the clock; politics, education,
consumerism, media, it could be confidently claimed ours is an age in which the
individual subject is in increasing search of itself.
(extract from blogger Peter Cheevers PhD)
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