Subjectivity in the twenty-first century : psychological, sociological, and political perspectives / edited by Romin W. Tafarodi, University of Toronto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tafarodi, Romin W., 1966- editor.

Series:

Culture and psychology.

Culture and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity.

Intersubjectivity.

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is it like to be a person today? To think, feel, and act as an individual in a time of accelerated social, cultural, technological, and political change? This question is inspired by the double meaning of subjectivity as both the 'first-personness' of consciousness (being a subject of experience) and the conditioning of that consciousness within society (being subject to power, authority, or influence). The contributors to this volume explore the perils and promise of the self in today's world. Their shared aim is to describe where we stand and what is at stake as we move ahead in the twenty-first century. They do so by interrogating the historical moment as a predicament of the subject. Their shared focus is on subjectivity as a dialectic of self and other, or individual and society, and how the defining tensions of subjectivity are reflected in contemporary forms of individualism, identity, autonomy, social connection, and political consciousness.

Contents:

Cover

Subjectivity in the Twenty­First­Century

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

References

Part I Relationality

1 Subjectivity and Strong Relationality

The Axial Age and the "Great Disembedding"

The Modern Self

The Revolt of the Many against the One

The Decentered Self

Hermeneutics and the Dialogical Self

Strong Relationality

A Hermeneutic Ontology

Dialogic Understanding

A Dialogical ­Self

Reconciliation of the One and the Many

Conclusion

2 A Multivoiced and Dialogical Self and the Challenge of Social Power in a Globalizing World

Global-Local Dialectics

The Coexistence of Globalization and Localization

Globalization and Dialogue

Self as a Society of Mind

Dominance and Social Power

Collective Voices Speak through Individual Voices

Dialogue and Dominance

The Dialogical Self as a Dynamic Multiplicity of I-­Positions

Globalization and Identity Confusion

Hierarchical Position Repertoires

How Can the Self Be Continuous in a Discontinuous Society?

Securitizing Subjectivity

The Creation of Continuity by a Multivoiced Dialogical Self

Acculturation Is Not Linear and Monotrajectory

The Continuum between Monologue and Dialogue

Mixtures of Monologue and Dialogue

Friendship as the Other-­in-­the-­Self

The Multiplicity of Cultural Positions: Between Social Proximity and Distance

3 Technology and the Tributaries of Relational Being

The Unbounded Self

The Encapsulated Self

The Playing Self

The Future in View: Between Peril and Prosperity

Part II Emotional Life

4 Melancholic Subjectivity

Nostalgia, Fundamentalism, Resistance

Cultures of Narcissism and Melancholia

Melancholic Postcoloniality

Lost Lacks

Reclaiming Rootless Cosmopolitanism.

References

5 Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

From Homo Sincerus to Homo Authenticus

Character Types as Partisan Symbols

Skirmishes in the Culture Wars

A Divided Culture

6 New Kinds of Subjective Uncertainty?

Has Aldous Huxley's 'New' World Bravely Arrived?1

Can John Dewey's Idea of 'Art as Experience' Help Us to Understand the Coming Changes by Art of Twenty-­first Century Subject

'Self' and Points-­of-­View in Perception, Memory and Imagination

Selfhood, Kinds of Episodic Memory and Uncertainty about Their 'Factuality'

Emerging Technologies, Artistic Points-­of-­View, Feelings of Agency and Subjective Uncertainty about What Is Remembered

False Memories and Artistic Means of Implanting Them?

Transmuting Collective, Cultural Memories into Personal Episodic Ones?

Part III Political and Institutional Perspectives

7 Radical Subjectivity and the N­Row Wampum

Introduction: Autonomy, Radical Subjectivity and the Dominant Order in Settler Societies

Who Are We, and What Are We Trying (Not) to Say?

The Value and Necessity of the Two Row Model

Some Places Where the Two Row Cannot Go

Towards 'N'-­Dimensional Networks of Relations

Conclusion: Infinities upon Infinities

8 The Theory of New Individualism

The New Individualist Thesis: The Sociological Backcloth

Situating the Self: Reflexivity, Technologies

The Theory of the New Individualism: Key Institutional Drivers

9 Feminism, Foucault, and Globalized Subjectivity

Globalization

Feminist Contributions to Contemporary Philosophical Theories of Subjectivity: Embodiment, Relationships, Social Location

Embodied Subjectivity

Dependence, Interdependence, and Relationality

Politics of Location: Standpoint Theory.

From Gendered Subjectivity to Feminist Subjectivity

Genealogies of Subjectivity

Foucault's Toolbox

Power

Discourses

Disciplines

Biopower and Governmentality

Gendered Discourses of Labor and Citizenship

Gendered Labor and Globalization

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-107-28948-3

1-139-89044-1

1-107-28903-3

1-107-29285-9

1-107-29392-8

1-107-29113-5

1-107-29008-2

1-139-03521-5

OCLC:

862126140