The disappearance of the author in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" as an artistic response to the anthropological crisis of the early 20th century

The article addresses the issue of rethinking the role of authorial intention in 20th-century culture through the lens of philosophical anthropology. The study substantiates the thesis that the crisis of authorship is a direct consequence of a fundamental anthropological shift influenced by the ideas of Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx, as well as the trauma of the world wars and the secularization of consciousness. Using the material from James Joyce's novel "Ulysses," it analyzes specific artistic mechanisms of authorial decentering in detail: the stream of consciousness technique, open endings, encyclopedic intertextuality, and to a lesser extent, polystylism. It concludes that the strategic disappearance of the author's voice in the text mirrors the loss of human status as a holistic center of the universe. Authorial intention is not entirely denied but transformed from an absolute dictate of meaning into an invitation to dialogue, where the reader becomes an active co-author. The work demonstrates the inseparable connection between literary form and the philosophical self-consciousness of the era, showing how the anthropological crisis of the subject manifests in the narrative strategies of modernism. The research employs a philosophical-anthropological method that reveals the connection between the subject's crisis and literary form, as well as comparative analysis. A historical-cultural approach is also used to substantiate the transformation of authorship in the 20th century. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the comprehensive examination of the problem of authorial intention through the lens of philosophical anthropology, which allows for the identification of causal relationships between the subject's crisis in early 20th-century philosophy and the transformation of narrative strategies in literature. For the first time, using the material from Joyce's novel "Ulysses," artistic mechanisms of authorial decentering (stream of consciousness, polystylism, intertextuality) are systematized as a direct embodiment of the anthropological shift. The main conclusions: the rethinking of authorial intention is caused not by methodological arbitrariness but by the fundamental loss of human status as a holistic center of the universe under the influence of the ideas of Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and the trauma of the world wars. The author does not disappear completely but transforms from a dictator of meaning into a dialogue partner. Literary form becomes a reliable testimony to the change in the anthropological world view: meaning is born not in the creator's monologue but in the joint effort of the text, the reader, and the cultural context.