The Impersonal. Perspectives and Implications

Abstract

It seems no to be doubted that the philosophical twentieth century (no less than the literary or artistic one), at least starting from its second half, circumscribed, surrounded and then dismissed its main adversary, namely the notion of subjectivity, just as it had been inherited from the modern tradition of Cartesian ancestry. It would not be difficult to show how, starting from this point of view, absolutely heterogeneous thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Ernst Mach or Ludwig Klages, with radically different shades and ways, have all manifested the same and general concern in comparisons of the subjectivism of the western philosophical tradition.