> Does individualism even have anything to do with discussions of
> subjectivity?
> Individualism is linked to political rhetoric and thought, subjectivity to
> theories of mind and knowledge--unless by "subjectivities" you mean certain
> configurations of values and beliefs that can be reasonably imputed to
> various
> people, in which case, individualism would certainly be one of them.
Roughly... by subectivity I mean the entwined experience of and ways of knowing the self in relation to the world. Individualism is one way people can understand themselves and how they relate to the world; is one way people can talk about how selves are and can be placed in the world.
> Broadly (i.e., inaccurately) speaking, isn't it funny that the political
> idea of the sovereign individual comes into vogue about the same time we
> get the great philosophical attempts to build systems upon foundations of
> some uniform, universal subjective apparatus?
Well the two are obviously tied together. I can't be sure if that's funny or not.
Catherine