Being a partial subject need not reduce one to a passive object

Evidence

Either it is a thing among other things, or else it is that by which things are revealed to me. But it can not be both at the same time. Similarly I see my hand touching objects, but do not know it in its act of touching them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 826 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Subjectivity can fuse with objective form without blotting it out — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 96; Being a partial subject means agency exists without full authorship — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 367; Objectivity requires a freely perceiving subject, not its erasure — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 637 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The body cannot be simultaneously an object and the subject that reveals the world #complicates (0.76) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 826