Tag: Subjectivity

Free Download Emerging Subjectivity in the Long 19th-Century Middle East: Philological Approaches
by Stephan Guth
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111344819 | 519 Pages | PDF | 4.92 MB

Free Download Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx: Exploring the Psychosocial Dynamic of Emancipation
by Paul Elias
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9004714332 | 236 Pages | PDF | 2.88 MB

Free Download Lawrence Venuti, "Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology"
English | 2018 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 1138361879, 1138361771 | PDF | 14,9 mb
Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator’s activity more visible by using critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of translation strategies; the reception of the translated text, and the theories of translation offered by philosophers, critics and translators themselves. The book constitutes a rethinking that is both philosophical and political, taking into account social and ideological dimensions, as well as questions of language and subjectivity. Covering a number of genres and national literatures, this collection of essays demonstrates the power wielded by translators in the formation of literary canons and cultural identities, and recognises the appropriative and imperialist movements in every act of translation.

Free Download Julia Vassilieva, "Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology "
English | ISBN: 9463728708 | 2020 | 246 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the ‘long durée’ of the 20th century and into the 21st. By raising the issue of ‘beyond the essay film’, this collection seeks not only to acknowledge the influential predecessors of this ― in the view of many critics, the most interesting type of contemporary filmmaking ― but also to speculate about its possible transformation as we move forward into the uncharted waters of the 21st ― digital ― century. Beyond the Essay Film focusses on three specific axes that underpin and shape the articulation of the essay film as a specific cultural form ― subjectivity, textuality, and technology ― to explore how changes along and across these dimensions affect historical shifts within the essay-film practice and its relation to other types of cinema and neighbouring art forms.

Free Download Alexander M. Schlutz, "Mind’s World: Imagination and Subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism "
English | ISBN: 0295988932 | 2009 | 344 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Winner of the 2009 International Conference on Romanticism’s Jean-Pierre Barricelli Award for the best book in Romanticism studies

Free Download Bishnupriya Dutt, "Theatre, activism, subjectivity: Searching for the Left in a fragmented world "
English | ISBN: 1526178567 | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture. It proposes a search for the Left not from totalising Leftist ideological positions and partisan politics but from ethical dimensions through smaller-scale Left-leaning struggles; not from the political to the aesthetic, but from the potentiality of art to offer new political imagination and critique; not from the individual subordinated to the collective, but from the dialectics of subjectivity and collectivity. This is not an attempt at a sweeping global overview of Leftist cultures either, but a collection that brings together culture-specific and comparative perspectives. This book searches for fragments of and on the Left, past and present, through which to rethink and patch a fragmented world.

Free Download Markus Gabriel, "Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity"
English | ISBN: 0674260287 | 2024 | 296 pages | PDF | 19 MB
A leading German philosopher offers his most ambitious work yet on the nature of knowledge, arguing that being wrong about things defines the human condition.

Free Download Daniel F. Silva, "Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empires Individuals "
English | ISBN: 0367873354 | 2019 | 244 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This bookbrings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp the complex role of subjectivity in reformulating the terms of imperial domination from early modern European expansion to late capitalism. This entails approaching Empire as a constantly shifting system of differences and meanings as well as an ontological project, a mode of historical writing, and economy of desire that repeatedly envelops the subject into the realm of western power. The analysis of an array of literary texts and cultural artifacts is undertaken by means of a theoretically eclectic approach – drawing on psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, postcolonial theory, and Marxism – with the aim of forwarding current knowledge of Empire while also contributing to different branches of critical theory. In exploring the formation of imperial subjectivity in different historical moments, Silva raises new questions related to the signification of otherness in European expansion and colonial settlement, slavery and eugenics in post-independence Americas, and late capitalist circulation of bodies and commodities. The volume also covers a broad range of geo-cultural spaces in order to locate western power in time and space. This book’s diversity in terms of approach, historical scope, and cultural contexts makes it a useful tool for research and teaching among students and scholars of disciplines including Postcolonial Studies, Colonial History, Literature, and Globalization.

Free Download Stefano Gualeni, Daniel Vella, "Virtual Existentialism: Meaning and Subjectivity in Virtual Worlds"
English | 2020 | pages: 149 | ISBN: 3030384802, 3030384772 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This book explores what it means to exist in virtual worlds. Chiefly drawing on the philosophical traditions of existentialism, it articulates the idea that – by means of our technical equipment and coordinated practices – human beings disclose contexts or worlds in which they can perceive, feel, act, and think. More specifically, this book discusses how virtual worlds allow human beings to take new perspectives on their values and beliefs, and explore previously unexperienced ways of being. Virtual Existentialism will be useful for scholars working in the fields of philosophy, anthropology, media studies, and digital game studies.

Free Download Bakhtin and his Others : (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism By Steinby, Liisa; Klapuri, Tintti; Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich
2013 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 0857283081 | PDF | 2 MB
‘Bakhtin and his Others’ aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin’s ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality – including his concepts of chronotope and literary polyphony – by reconsidering his ideas in relation to the sources he employs, and taking into account later research on similar topics. The case studies show how Bakhtin’s ideas, when seen in light of this approach, can be constructively employed in contemporary literary research.