Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-century FranceThis classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern French thought, and her study remains a provocative and timely intervention in contemporary debates over the unconscious, the powers of subjection, and the subject. |
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Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France Judith Butler Limited preview - 2012 |
Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-century France Judith Butler Limited preview - 2012 |
Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-century France Judith Butler Limited preview - 1999 |
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absolute affirmation affirms appears argues becomes body bondsman claim conception consciousness constitutive context death defined definition Deleuze Derrida desire’s determinate dialectical difference discourse domination effect emerges emotions essential existence existential experience external facticity figure final find first flesh Foucault freedom fundamental Genet and Flaubert Hegel Hegel’s Phenomenology Hegel’s subject Hegelian subject Hence human desire Husserl Hyppolite Hyppolite’s identity imaginary imagination infinite insofar intentionality internal Jean Hyppolite Jean Wahl jouissance juridical Kojeve Kojeve’s Lacan Lordship and Bondage meaning mediation metaphysical metonymic mode moral narrative negation negativity Nietzsche nothingness notion object one’s ontological Other’s paradoxical Phenomenology of Spirit philosophical positive possible pre-reflective project of desire psychoanalytic reality recognition reflective reflexive relation repression reveals sadism and masochism Saint Genet Sartre Sartre’s view satisfaction sciousness seeks self-consciousness sense sensuous signified slave morality specific Spinoza structure struggle subject of desire teleological temporality theory transcendence transformation truth understand understood unity will-to-power