Phenomenological Subjectivity as an Intersection Between Philosophy and Literature

Abstract

Thorough depiction of the problem of phenomenological subjectivity is a profound, and contemporary challenge. Investigations
of young and late Husserl, as well as his successors (that upgraded the phenomenological project) – Martin Heidegger, Roman
Ingarden, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, etc. should provide us with a large interdisciplinary context, especially
between philosophy and literary criticism. The question of subjectivity is something which contemporary epistemology cannot deny – it is
dominant aspect in the domains of literary theory (author, narrator, reader), as well as in philosophical inquiries (practical, metaphysical,
transcendental subject, etc.). This paper aims to reunite this concept within a wider context – the question of subjectivity is more than
19th century, modern, or postmodern product. It concerns the provisional status of subject as existential Sein, but also the possibility to
consider postmodern subjectivity as its confirmation. On the one hand, in Derrida’s terms, solicitation is the movement of self, destruction
of totality, but on the other it is also “being “ as presence in the living present, that ultimately is not available for diminution, especially
because its uniformity cannot be theoretically grasped.