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Review Essay: The Locus of Subjectivity in Cultural Studies

Carlos Cornejo

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, cca{at}puc.cl

I offer an interpretation of Ernst E. Boesch's theory of symbolic action focusing on the usually overlooked phenomenological and existential aspects of this cultural-psychological approach. This interpretation raises the more general question about the role that subjectivity plays in cultural-psychological studies. It is argued that, depending on the concept of meaning that is assumed, cultural studies can be divided in to two main streams, namely the hermeneutic-historicist and the phenomenological-existentialist perspectives. The theoretical consequence of this dual program is the so-called `micro—macro problem'. Boesch's concept of action field is interpreted here as a meso-unit: it is unfolded within an objective system of reference; but at the same time, it is oriented toward the future from the personal perspective of a subject. This existential aspect of Boesch's theory serves to illustrate the theoretical need for the consideration of the phenomenological dimension in cultural studies.

Key Words: cultural studies • subjectivity • symbolic action

Culture & Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 2, 243-256 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X07076608
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