Pure subjectivity pushed to its limit flips into a new objectivity and total order

Evidence

Standing between these two extremes, the Beethoven melody represents a short-lived synthesis of the functional and the expressive: lengthy and articulate, it presents the appearance of autonomy while being at the same time shrewdly disposed and preformed with a view to the various developments, polyphonic or variational, which it is about to undergo. Reciprocally, the various subvoices of the development are still relatively independent and intrinsically meaningful, which cannot be said for those of late Romanticism; and they have something individual and personal about them which distinguishes them from their rather schematic and mechanical equivalents in earlier music. Thus subjectivity and the personal inform the score down to its smallest elements, but do so by working through the objective, suffusing and vivifying it, rather than by blotting it out and smothering it with the overwhelming harmonic and coloristic bias of later music. And what is true of the part holds, as we have already seen above, for the form as a whole, for the sonata as a short-lived possibility of meaningful organization on a large scale, in which the mind is momentarily able to glimpse a concrete totality, completely present at every instant of its unfolding. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 96 (#expands, via linked claim)

On the other hand, the radical is never a subjectivist. For this individual the subjective aspect exists only in relation to the objective aspect (the concrete reality, which is the object of analysis). Subjectivity and objectivity thus join in a dialectical unity producing knowledge in solidarity with action, and vice versa. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 83 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Subjectivity is asymmetrically dependent on objectivity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2543; Subjectivity can fuse with objective form without blotting it out — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 96; Subjectivity and objectivity form a dialectical unity in knowledge — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 83 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Subjectivity can fuse with objective form without blotting it out #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 96
• Subjectivity and objectivity form a dialectical unity in knowledge #corroborates (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 83