Simon Lumsden is Associate Professor of
philosophy at
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensiv ...
. 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.
The success of this position is historically attribute ...
,
German idealism
German idealism was 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 term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it. Though post-structuralists all present different critique ...
.
Hegel, Derrida and the Subject
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See also
*Subject (philosophy)
A subject is a being who has a unique consciousness and/or unique personal experiences, or an entity that has a relationship with another entity that exists outside itself (called an " object").
A ''subject'' is an observer and an ''object'' i ...
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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20th-century Australian philosophers
21st-century Australian philosophers
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Living people
Social philosophers
Poststructuralists
Hermeneutists
Heidegger scholars
University of New South Wales alumni
University of Sydney alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)