(3) Among many other ironical references to philosophy Beckett points out the
solipsist self-referenciality of Cartesian idea of subjectivity in Molloy through the image of man in the middle of the forest, who does his "best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line" Beckett (2009: 78).
It's the act of a lonely
solipsist's self-love." Conversely, the narrator reveals, Mark Nechtr "desires, some distant hard-earned day, to write something that stabs you in the heart.
For the dreamer is the ultimate
solipsist, revelling in fantasies about interpolating fiction, i.e.
However, I need to stress how this analysis tends to underestimate the relation between the social and the singular that characterizes the Modern novel; indeed, as Massumi affirms in respect to his theorization, the sensation-based aesthetic is not simply reducible to a subjectivist relativism, which leads to a sort of
solipsist expression, but rather to an unmediated "naive subjectivism" (2), which does not exclude its relation to sociality.
But if you set out to become a communicator, not a scribbling
solipsist, you must get your head up above your circumstances; and it is in that gesture, that strategy of turning outwards that, in my view, some of the healing power of art resides.
Both, in his 2007 and his 2012, Putnam reminds us that by the time he wrote Reason, Truth, and History, and defined truth as idealized justification, he wasn't aware of the
solipsist "dilemma" of conflating the meaning of a sentence with its assertability conditions.
Social action is the name of the game, and what people think and do is either the result of a
solipsist process or a consequence of structural contexts.
Currently, writing is no longer seen as a
solipsist cognitive process that begins and ends with the individual.
From this point of view, the
solipsist's fallacy lies in his failure to apply his skeptical argument to his apparent self.
The avantgarde that Hassan traces through Sade to Hemingway and Kafka, and finally to Genet and Beckett, is a "literature of silence" that "de-realizes the world" and then either "turns consciousness upon itself" or condemns it to the
solipsist drama of self and anti-self, to the autism of an "ambivalent semantic." (16)
Dwight Eisenhower's command: "Subordination held little appeal for a
solipsist.'' Soldiers visited Picasso in his Paris studio where Hemingway, who ghostwrote love letters for some soldiers, "had left behind a box of grenades.'' Churchill, whose thoughts encompassed millennia past and future, ordered German rocket sites on the French side of the English Channel destroyed so the French could not use them "if they fall out of temper with us.''
In a democratic world of individual
solipsists, government is the greatest
solipsist of them all.
