Inventio subiecti. The invention of the modern subject (7)

Beyond good and evil, § 17. The grammarian's syllogism
From German to French and English. The linguistic network of the subject-agent
" Zu jeder Thätigkeit gehört Einer, der thätig ist "; "Toute action suppose un sujet qui l'accomplit", " Every activity requires an agency that is active "
Subject, agent, author, actor: analysis of Will to Power, § 531
Judgment and the origin of the subject according to Nietzsche: "Supposing to the event a being", which is not only one with the event, but "is and remains, while the event arrives and becomes"
" Der Blitz leuchtet ", "l'éclair luit", against the reduction of the event to predicative form (Nietzsche)
For the reduction of categorical propositions to existentials (Franz Brentano, 1838-1917)
Back to the archaeology of the subject
By the end of the ^13th century, the network of theses and concepts criticized by Nietzsche was fully articulated
Presentation of Pierre de Jean-Olieu's attributivist* model (Olivi, † 1298).

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