The Subjective Paradigm in Science, Psychology, and Criticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3544736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Bleich (0000-0001-7253-4018, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 313 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468508 |
| OpenAlex | W2315132556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
N RECENT TIMES the study of literature has become less orthodox than it has been for most of this century. In publications addressed to the profession and in classroom practice, ideas and techniques from other branches of the humanities and social sciences have begun to influence literary thought. At the same time, the interests of students have developed in a new direction-toward reducing the distance between the actual reading experience and the conceptualizations that are put forth as literary knowledge. In terms of our topical memory of the past fifteen years these developments are not surprising. Changes in literary study can be seen as a local component of broad social developments which include assassinations, popular activism, and presidential corruption. We could therefore say that literary study changed because social consciousness changed. I think it is possible, however, to be more specific about this decrease in orthodoxy, and to understand it as part of a definite intellectual shift that began at the outset of this century and that is increasing its influence in both the quantitative and hermeneutic disciplines. This shift is a change in paradigm from one of objectivity that prevailed from the time of Galileo and Descartes, to one of subjectivity that started with Einstein, Bohr, Freud, and I. A. Richards. In the following remarks, I will try to explain what I mean by thought to describe the original objective paradigm, to suggest why it began to lose its utility, to outline the main manifestations of the subjective paradigm in recent intellectual work, and to indicate how I think the subjective paradigm productively transforms our conception of literary study. My claim is that this paradigm now describes the epistemological presuppositions in almost all of the major disciplines that seek to establish new knowledge
Art · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Psychology · Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2015 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |