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Acá he vivido en infinitas differençias. Metamorphosen des Subjekts in El Crótalon

  • Christina Johanna Bischoff
Published/Copyright: October 24, 2013
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Abstract

The anonymous Renaissance dialogue El Crótalon has been described as a reflex of bourgeois claims to define an autonomous, self-regulated subjectivity (Mar Martínez Góngora). In this context dialogue, as the present contribution shows, plays a crucial role. It is not a mere vehicle of interchange but constitutes a scenario of subjectivization that allows one to explore the relationship between subject, truth and power. Thus the beginning of the dialogue stages the creation of a subject via the implementation of a passionate attachment to knowledge; the latter being considered as a way to a truth that founds - and paradoxically is founded by - power. This configuration is challenged in the eighteenth dialogue, where truth and power dissociate. Subjectivization is no longer considered as empowerment; quite on the contrary it is perceived as the source of human bondage to time. At the same time, knowledge itself is centred in the subject, whereby El Crótalon yields a distinctively modern perspective on subjectivity.

Online erschienen: 2013-10-24
Erschienen im Druck: 2012-12

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