Subjects of Desire
Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-century France
Published on 20. October 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-0-231-06451-4 (ISBN)
Description
This now classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit through its appropriation by Kojeve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault, presenting how French reception of Hegel posed successive challenges to his metaphysics and view of the subject and revealed ambiguities within his position. Subjects of Desire provides a sophisticated account of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern France and remains timely in thinking about contemporary debates concerning desire, the unconscious, subjection, and the subject.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
0 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-06451-4 (9780231064514)
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Person
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of many works, including Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection; and Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative.
Content
Desire, Rhetoric, and Recognition in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit The Ontology of Desire Bodily Paradoxes: Lordship and Bondage Historical Desires: The French Reception of Hegel Kojeve: Desire and Historical Agency Hyppolite: Desire, Transcience, and the Absolute From Hegel to Sartre Sartre: The Imaginary Pusuit of Being Image, Emotion, and Desire The Strategies of Pre-reflective Choice: Existential Desire in Being and Nothingness Trouble and Longing: The Circle of Sexual Desire in Being and Nothingness Desire and Recognition in Saint Genet and The Family Idiot The Life and Death Struggles of Desire: Hegel and Contemporary French Theory A Questionable Patrilieage: (Post-) Hegelian Themes in Derrida and Foucault Lacan: The Opacity of Desire Deleuze: From Slave Morality to Productive Desire Foucault: Dialectics Unmoored Final Reflections on the "Overcoming" of Hegel