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| Messianic Subjectivity and the Objectivity Delusion | |
Groom, Nick
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| 2024-12 | |
| Source Publication | Critical Quarterly
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| Abstract | This article gives an early history of the word ‘objectivity’, which first appeared in a review of Charles Villers’ Philosophie de Kant (Metz, 1801), published in The Edinburgh Review for January 1803, written by the Scottish philosopher and poet Thomas Brown (1778–1820). Brown was disparaging of both Immanuel Kant’s philosophy and Villers’ account, and so the paper argues that the word ‘objectivity’ was coined as a derogatory term to expose the perceived dogmatic abstraction of Kantian metaphysics advanced in a flawed review by a Scottish philosopher who actually regarded subjective poetry as a vehicle for the highest truths. The relationship between ‘objectivity’ and ‘subjectivity’ proved crucial for Romantic aesthetics, notably in the critical theory of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the article consequently stresses not only the reliance of ‘objectivity’ upon ‘subjectivity’, but argues that ‘objectivity’ is effectively a dramatically magnified and remote form of ‘subjectivity’. |
| Indexed By | A&HCI |
| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH |
| Affiliation | University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Groom, Nick. Messianic Subjectivity and the Objectivity Delusion[J]. Critical Quarterly, 2024. |
| APA | Groom, Nick.(2024). Messianic Subjectivity and the Objectivity Delusion. Critical Quarterly. |
| MLA | Groom, Nick."Messianic Subjectivity and the Objectivity Delusion".Critical Quarterly (2024). |
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