The Vanishing Subject: Early Psychology and Literary Modernism

by Judith Ryan

Book Overview

Is thinking personal? Or should we not rather say, "it thinks," just as we say, "it rains"? In the late nineteenth century a number of psychologies emerged that began to divorce consciousness from the notion of a personal self. They asked whether subject and object are truly distinct, whether consciousness is unified or composed of disparate elements, what grounds exist for regarding today's "self" as continuous with yesterday's. If the American pragmatist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226732266
• ISBN13: 9780226732268
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"