The paradox of subjectivity
Subtitle: the self in the transcendental tradition
By: David Carr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804; Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938; Self (Philosophy); Transcendentalism
Description: Much effort in recent philosophy has been devoted to attacking the "metaphysics of the subject." Identified largely with French post-structuralist thought, yet stemming primarily from the influential work of the later Heidegger, this attack has taken the form of a sweeping denunciation of the whole tradition of modern philosophy from Descartes through Nietzsche, Husserl, and Existentialism.

In this timely study, David Carr contends that this discussion has overlooked and eventually lost sight of the distinction between modern metaphysics and the tradition of transcendental philosophy inaugurated by Kant and continued by Husserl into the twentieth century. Carr maintains that the transcendental tradition, often misinterpreted as a mere alternative version of the metaphysics of the subject, is in fact itself directed against such a metaphysics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-146) and index.