The human right to know and the reality of knowledge
pp. 289-303
in: Dimitri Ginev, Robert S. Cohen (eds), Issues and images in the philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 1997Abstrakt
Most people today, being asked the question "is subjectivity a waning standard?", would tend to answer in the affirmative, without giving the matter a second thought. How, then, is subjectivity to provide a central perspective for philosophical thought and for living one's life — after Nietzsche's critique of humanism, Marx's analysis of the conditions under which any free association between free human beings is not possible, and under the impact of the postmodernist veto on this central category of the tradition of European Enlightenment? Without doubt the Romantic notion of subjectivity is no longer an issue today. And yet, I shall be defending the thesis that the age of subjectivity ushered in by Kant only now has come into existence. Modernity, in other words, has only just begun.
