Lecture
LCCP Lecture “Heideggerian Subjectivity between Subjectivism and Impersonalism”
- Date
- Wednesday 4 October 2023
- Time
- Series
- LCCP work in progress and research seminar 2023
- Location
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Old Observatory
Sterrenwachtlaan 11
2311 GW Leiden - Room
- C0.04
Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce a talk by Renxian Liu.
From Foundation to Finite Locality
Abstract. This paper discusses how Heideggerian Dasein can be seen as de-subjectivizing subjectivity, making subjectivity indispensable yet non-foundational, thus clearing up a third path between subjectivism and impersonalism. I approach the issue with Carr’s distinction between the transcendental and the empirical subject. Upon the assumption of the finitude of being’s manifestation in beings, I suggest “disclosedness” and “reflexivity” as pro-personal ontological structures of Dasein. Disclosedness is ontologically prior because it is called for as a finite locality in being’s manifestation, while reflexivity is derivative yet irreducible. Thus, the two senses of subjectivity are not incompatible but stand in hierarchized continuity.
Keywords: Heidegger, paradox of subjectivity, disclosedness, reflexivity, impersonalism
About
Renxiang Liu (BS & MPhil, Peking University; PhD, McGill University) is Shui-Mu Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Philosophy, Tsinghua University. His areas of specialization are phenomenology, existentialism, and German Idealism. He is especially interested in the questions of time, finitude, subjectivity, and plurality.
Renxiang has published articles in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Idealistic Studies, Sophia, The Humanistic Psychologist, etc. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript titled Meaning Takes Time to Unfold: Towards a Heideggerian Ontology of Temporal Differentiation.
