Entering into otherness: The postmodern critique of the subject and Karl Rahner's theological anthropology

The critique of the subject and the subjectivity in postmodern theory serve s also as a critique of the modern turn to the subject in theology. After r eviewing that critique in contemporary literary and rhetorical theory, this article examines the concept of the subject in Karl Rahner's theological a nthropology. This article argues that both postmodern theory and Rahner's a nthropology suggest alternatives to the autonomous subject, and that Rahner 's view can provide a description of an authentic, semi-permeable, and hist orically mediated subject.