The Humanist (Cartesian)
1. Stable /progressive, Singular
Examples: The hero and heroine in Titanic “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s
Day?” Traditional Novels Emily as a lonely spinster.
The Humanist (Cartesian)2. Essential (= Spritual or Rational)
1. Religious definitions of humans
2. Maternal Love
3. Romantic Poet = Imagination
4. I Think, therefore I Am.
I am where I don’t think.
I shop, therefore I am.
The Humanist (Cartesian)3. (Liberal Humanist) Free
(Liberal Humanist) Ultimately Free: Existentialist view
Individualism 只要我喜歡﹐沒有什麼不可以﹒
The Humanist The Contemporary
1. Stable/progressive, Singular
2. Essential
3. (Liberal Humanist) Ultimately Free
1. Double, Plural, Provisional, Split, or Fragmented
2. Sexual, Linguistic or Textual
3. Conditioned or Repressed
1. Double Location:
experience 事件
The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Views
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The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Views (2)
Linguistic Subject Positions
酷斃了 !
士不可不弘毅,任重而
道遠
我今天想翹課。
The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Examples
1. Double, Plural, Provisional,
Split, or Fragmented
“Metaphor” ;〈關鍵詞〉
The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Examples (2)
Conditioned or Repressed
Emily repressing her love for
the father;
conditioned by her class,
gender positions and
her function as a symbol
for Faulkner
The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Examples ( 3 )
Sexual, Linguistic or Textual
e.g. “Mindscape”