Erasure of the Subject: Postmodern Reflections (Editors’ Note)
Deeksha Suri | University of Delhi | ORCiD ID:
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2977-9543
Faizan Moquim | Jamia Milia Islamia | ORCiD ID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-1656
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.71106/IGAO4502
Publication:
Volume 3 Issue 1
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One of the most fundamental objects of reflection in the modern Western philosophy, the rational Subject, continues to be an inscrutable problem. Descartes’s seeking of the Subject as the first principle of philosophy to situate certitude within rational Subject paradoxically finds the Subject itself as an immaterial, thinking substance which sets its agenda for next couple of centuries. Since then a range of exhaustive debates have spawned across many disciplines—present Issue included—with their focus on the Cartesian mapping of the Subject aimed at defining, containing, and rediscovering it.
Keywords | Rational Subject, Subjectivity, Human Finitude, Sublime, Uncanny, Rene Descartes, Paul Ricouer, Kant
Deeksha Suri (
deeksha.suri80@gmail.com)
Faizan Moquim (
faizanmoquim@gmail.com)
MLA Citation for this Article:
Suri, Deeksha and Faizan Moquim. “Erasure of the Subject: Postmodern Reflections (Editors’ Note).”
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 21 Oct. 2019, pp. v-viii,
https://doi.org/10.71106/IGAO4502.
