The Self and Subjectivity
Published on 6. December 2004
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-4051-1205-5 (ISBN)
Description
Self and Subjectivity is a collection of seminal essays with commentary that traces the development of conceptions of "self" and "subjectivity" in European and Anglo-American philosophical traditions, including feminist scholarship, from Descartes to the present. It covers the rise of the philosophy of the subject, its crisis in postmodernity, and the re-articulation of selfhood, agency, and personal identity in very recent times. The book provides a comprehensive, accessible, and high-quality text that introduces the reader to various conceptions of self and subjectivity in relation to their historical, ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical contexts. The volume features essays by Descartes, Hume, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, Foucault, Judith Butler, Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit, and many others.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academics and general readers in history of philosophy
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Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-1205-5 (9781405112055)
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Kim Atkins is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Philosophy Today, and The International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
Content
AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Early Modern Philosophy1. Rene Descartes: "Meditation II"2. Commentary on Descartes3. John Locke: "Of Identity and Diversity"4. Commentary on Locke5. David Hume: "Of Personal Identity"6. Commentary on HumePart II: Later Modern Philosophy7. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, "Paralogisms of Pure Reason (A)" (first second and third paralogisms)8. Commentary on Kant9. G.W.F. Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, "Self-Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage"10. Commentary on Hegel11. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals12. Commentary on NietzschePart III: Phenomenology and Existentialism13. Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Look"14. Commentary15. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: "The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility"16. Commentary on Merleau-Ponty17. Martin Heidegger: "Exposition of the task of a preparatory analysis of Dasein"18. Commentary on HeideggerPart IV: Analytic Philosophy19. P. F. Strawson: "Persons"20. Commentary on Strawson21. Harry Frankfurt: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person"22. Commentary on Frankfurt23. Sydney Shoemaker: "A Materialist's Account"24. Commentary on Shoemaker25. Bernard Williams: "Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity"26. Commentary on Williams27. Derek Parfit: "What We Believe Ourselves To Be" in Reasons and Persons28. Commentary on ParfitPart V:Post-structuralism29. Sigmund Freud: "The Ego and The Id"30. Commentary on Freud31. Michel Foucault: "About the Beginnings of the Hermeneutics of the Self, two lectures at Dartmouth"32. Commentary on Foucault33. Paul Ricoeur: "The Self and Narrative Identity"34. Commentary on RicoeurPart VI: Feminist Philosophy35. Simone de Beauvoir: "Introduction" to The Second Sex36. Commentary on Beauvoir37. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity38. Commentary on Butler39. Luce Irigaray: "Any Theory of the Subject has Always Been Appropriated by the 'Masculine'"40. Commentary on Irigaray41. Catriona Mackenzie: "Imagining Oneself Otherwise"42. Commentary on MackenzieIndex