Objectivity and subjectivity are necessarily co-present in knowledge. On the one hand, pure subjectivity is not knowledge; it is only feelings of pain, joy, and so on. The most self-referential knowledge we can imagine must encounter an object, even one no more remote than a mother’s breast. On the other, the idea of an objectivity won by leaving subjectivity behind is a chimera. Knowledge becomes no truer, only more superficial, if it discards subjective awareness.
