Simon Lumsden is Associate Professor of
philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
at
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1949.
The university comprises seven faculties, through which it offers bachelor's, master's and docto ...
. He is known for his research on
subjectivism
Subjectivism is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience", instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth.
While Thomas Hobbes was an early proponent of subjecti ...
,
German idealism
German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...
and
poststructuralism
Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of power. Although diffe ...
.
Hegel, Derrida and the Subject
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See also
*Subject (philosophy)
The distinction between subject and object is a basic idea of philosophy.
*A subject is a being that exercises agency, undergoes conscious experiences, and is situated in relation to other things that exist outside itself; thus, a subject is any ...
Bibliography
* Lumsden S, 2014, ''Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Poststructuralists'', Columbia University Press, New York
* Lumsden S, 2013, 'Deleuze and Hegel on the limits of Self-Determined Subjectivity', in Houle K; Vernon J (ed.), ''Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time'', NorthWestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., pp. 133 - 151
* Lumsden S, 2013, 'Between Nature and Spirit: Hegel?s Account of Habit', in Stern DS (ed.), ''Essays on Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit'', edn. Hardback, State University of New York Press, Albany, pp. 121 - 138
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