Dividuals explores the other side, or hidden side of modern subjectivity, as seen in (mostly four) early modern Spanish classics. Veering away from the hypertrophied notions of individuality and identity, which constitute the bases of our own post-humanism and even anti-humanism, this essay looks into how, as humans, and as humanists, we have a long history of showing dividuality, a never-ending split in our beings. The split manifests itself in the humanist's split between historicist, socio-economic explanations of subjectivity (i.e.: how "modern man" is historically bound to a time, a…mehr
Dividuals explores the other side, or hidden side of modern subjectivity, as seen in (mostly four) early modern Spanish classics. Veering away from the hypertrophied notions of individuality and identity, which constitute the bases of our own post-humanism and even anti-humanism, this essay looks into how, as humans, and as humanists, we have a long history of showing dividuality, a never-ending split in our beings. The split manifests itself in the humanist's split between historicist, socio-economic explanations of subjectivity (i.e.: how "modern man" is historically bound to a time, a space, and a specific mode of production/ideology), of which Marxism has been the most characteristic expression, and explanations of subjectivity in which, on the contrary, the human psyche emerges every day of every era in relation to more universal traits such as language (i.e.: how "modern man" was always "there" as long as the construction of individuality depends on language and its endlesssignifying mechanics), of which psychoanalysis is the main discourse. But the split also manifests itself in the deeply contradictory nature of Don Quixote, Celestina, Lazarillo, or Diana.
Julio Baena is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught for almost his entire academic career. A stubborn practitioner of critique as necessarily theoretical, and of theory as necessarily critical, he interacts with the Spanish early modern classics as our contemporary, relevant interlocutors. In his articles, books, and graduate seminars about Cervantes, Góngora, the Spanish mystics, the picaresque, and many other early-modern Spanish issues, it is the critical theoretical issues that arise from both close reading and attention to the cultural matrixes of texts (of novels, or poems) that supersede any and all philological rigor (mortis). Nicknamed by some of his graduate students "the Heretic," Baena has often heard from them (now his colleagues and friends) that he taught them how to read.
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