Reconsidering Literary Autonomy

From an Individual towards a Relational Paradigm

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5305656
AutoresAukje Van Rooden (0000-0001-6482-535X, Yale University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume76
Fascículo2
Páginas167-190
Data de publicação2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.2015.0010
OpenAlexW2085797433
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas14

The idea of autonomy has been constitutive of the development of modern literature. The central question occupying debates on literature's social role is whether autonomy is inalienable. The debate between "autonomists" and "anti-autonomists" is however based on a distorted historical picture. It will be argued that the notion of "autonomy" emerged within an eighteenth-century "individual" paradigm that has according to the general history of ideas transformed into a "relational" paradigm. In the literary theory this shift has however not been conceptualized. The result is a theoretical impasse after the end of Romanticism in which autonomists and anti-autonomists are opposed

Art · Autonomy · Epistemology · History of literature · Literature · Paradigm shift · Political science · Romanticism · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Theatre and Performance Studies