"Bog-lights, vapours of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering
subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations--this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your bookshelves.
"This is why classical metaphysics and Christian theology are so dangerous [to those who subscribe to this subjectivism] and are met with furious opposition." The multiculturalist's notion that all views of life are equally good and acceptable is a form of this
subjectivism with its own consequences.
So the contrast between
subjectivism and stance-independence is very stark.
This
subjectivism about value has great utility when our focus is merely on satisfying the material needs and wants people actually happen to have.
POLITICAL CHOICEFor it stressed the fact that what masquerades as political choice in our country is really nothing but profound tribal
subjectivism.
Mises's insistence on
subjectivism in understanding economic choices and his stress on the complexities of market transactions have political lessons to teach.
Crotty delineates four main epistemologies including positivism, objectivism,
subjectivism and constructionism.
While Michael Werner discusses many people leading up to postmodernism in "Threads of Humanist History" (Humanism 101, J/A 2018), he gives short shrift to postmodernism itself, calling it "an extreme form of
subjectivism and cynicism." He neglects to mention: 1) the incredulity towards modernist narratives of personal and societal emancipation (Jean Francois Lyotard); 2) the cultural moment of multinational capitalism (Fredric Jameson); 3) the deconstruction of binary oppositions (Jacques Derrida); and 4) the real being replaced by signs of the real (Jean Baudrillard).
Godse accused Gandhi of
subjectivism and of acting as if only he had a monopoly of the truth.
Among the topics are the psychological roots of cognitive linguistics--and beyond; from signal to symbol to system: the emergence of language; concept, context, and extended embodiment: spatial language and cognitive development; space, time, semiosis, and cognitive artefacts: evidence from an Amazonian culture and language; and beyond
subjectivism and objectivism: realism; relativism, and representation.
Many people regard religion as the opposite of, and the antidote to,
subjectivism. In fact, however, religion is a form of
subjectivism.
Allow me list some of the chapters: 1) Poetry, the Siege Perilous; 4) Mythopoesis; 7) The Metaphysical Uses of Metaphor, Kenning, Riddle and Rune in the Teutonic Tradition; 11) The Dark Side of Poetry: Terence McKenna, DMT, the Techno-Elves, and the Deconstruction of the Human Form; 12) Sufism, Spiritual Romance, and the Union of East and West; 14) An Exegesis of the Prologue to William Blake's The Marriage of Heave and Hell; 16) The City of Byzantium in the Symbology of William Butler Years: 19) The Curse of Poetic
Subjectivism.