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The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy

The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 0823232999
ISBN13: 9780823232994
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
Published: Jul 22 2010
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the double of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique prefigures post-War extrapolations of the subject as decentred. From this perspective, the Doppelgänger has a family resemblance to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity.

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