Two autonomous but separate subjects
Does the highlighted sentence below want to say "allows us to think of the self and the other beyond simply two autonomous subjects but to think of them as two separate subjects"?
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On the other hand, in engaging the masochistic drives art provides a safe zone (perhaps akin to Winnicott’s transitional space) in which the self, whether artist or viewer, confronts not the other but him- or herself as an object. This destabilisation of the self as a unified subject allows us to consider an ethics beyond thinking of the self and the other as two autonomous but separate subjects.
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catttt Does the highlighted sentence below want to say "allows us to think of the self and the other beyond simply two autonomous subjects but to think of them as two separate subjects"? No. The granmmar of it is "X but Y", like "tired but happy", meaning "the one thing and rather paradoxically the other at the same time".
- catttt Does the highlighted sentence below want to say "allows us to think of the self and the other beyond simply two autonomous subjects but to think of them as two separate subjects"?
- No.
- The granmmar of it is "X but Y", like "tired but happy", meaning "the one thing and rather paradoxically the other at the same time".
- The writer sounds a bit confused, or maybe it's me, using "but" that way here.
- If the two things are autonomous, they are separate by definition to my way of thinking.
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cattttDoes the highlighted sentence below want to say "allows us to think of the self and the other beyond simply two autonomous subjects but to think of them as two separate subjects"?
No. The granmmar of it is "X but Y", like "tired but happy", meaning "the one thing and rather paradoxically the other at the same time". The writer sounds a bit confused, o
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