Subjectivity and Infinity - Zhao, Guoping

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Résumé :
This book formulates a new theory of subjectivity in the context of the claimed death of the subject in the post-modern and post-human age. The new theory is developed against the conception of the subject as a transcendental ego whose constitutive roles, recognition, and representation lead to the objectivization and totalization of the world and denial of its inner infinity and heterogeneity. Critically scrutinizing ideas from Bergson, James, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, Zen Buddhism, and Chinese Zhuangzi, and through an analysis of time and temporality, this book advances a number of new concepts, including primal sensibility and pure experience, and proposes a porous structure of subjectivity with an ex-egological and ex-subjective zone that allows nothingness and absence to ground presence. Such a theory of subjectivity provides the basis for an understanding of thinking as imagination and self-identity as narrative presentation in the intersubjective world....

Biographie:
Guoping Zhao is Professor and Research Fellow at Oklahoma State University, USA....

Sommaire:

PART I: TEMPORALITY AND SUBJECTIVITY

1. Introduction

2. Time and Existence

3. Space and Time

4. Time and Recognition

5. Primal Sensibility

6. Pure Experience

7. Primal Sensibility and The Other Time

8. Timelessness

9. Temporality and Existent

10. Being and Nothingness? Infinity and the Porous Existent

11. Death and the Beginning, or the Infinite Time

PART II: THINKING, IMAGINATION, AND SELF-IDENTITY

13. Spatiality, Temporality, and Thinking

14. Substance and Imagination

15. On Reason and Rationality

16. Kant's Imagination and Time

17. Self-identity and Narrative Imagination

18. Existent and Self-identity

19. Who are you? and Who am I? Self-Identity as Narrative Presentation