The Modern Subject

The Modern SubjectProvides a thorough background study of the postmodern assault on the standpoint of the subject as a foundation for philosophy, and assesses what remains today of the philosophy of subjectivity. Contemporary thought often claims the "death of the subject," and postmodernists typically contend that the standpoint of human subjectivity has been surpassed as a foundation for philosophy. A proper appreciation of these influential claims requires an

Author Anne Fairchild Pomeroy asserts that it is impossible to appreciate fully the impact of Marx's critique of capitalism without understanding the philosophical system that underlies it

he is not made of granite or bronze

Noguchi was also a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination of national poetries

in the end

A Son of the Forest is a groundbreaking autobiography from a pioneering author and activist of the early nineteenth century

Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity

Christian Wolmar has dug behind the hype and found a very different story

Expressing a robust notion of discursive responsibility

a day that reveals to him

the public realm-as a veritable retort and reply to Heidegger

Charles Wright

University of Birmingham