Self and subjectivity

Author(s)

• Atkins, Kim

Bibliographic Information

Self and subjectivity

edited with commentary by Kim Atkins

（Blackwell readings in Continental philosophy, 8）

Blackwell, 2005

• : pbk.

Note

Bibliography: p. [300]-304

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I Early Modern Philosophy 5 1 Commentary on Descartes 7 Rene Descartes: "Meditation II" 12 2 Commentary on Locke 19 John Locke: "Of Identity and Diversity" 24 3 Commentary on Hume 33 David Hume: "Of Personal Identity" 37 Part II Later Modern Philosophy 45 4 Commentary on Kant 47 Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason,"Paralogisms of Pure Reason (A)" (first, second, and third paralogisms) 52 5 Commentary on Hegel 60 G. W. F. Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, "Self-consciousness: Lordship and Bondage" 65 6 Commentary on Nietzsche 71 Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Genealogy of Morals" 76 Part III Phenomenology and Existentialism 85 7 Commentary on Sartre 87 Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Look" 92 8 Commentary on Merleau-Ponty 101 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: "The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility" 106 9 Commentary on Heidegger 113 Martin Heidegger: "Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein" 117 Part IV Analytic Philosophy 125 10 Commentary on Strawson 127 P. F. Strawson: "Persons" 132 11 Commentary on Frankfurt 139 Harry Frankfurt: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" 144 12 Commentary on Shoemaker 153 Sydney Shoemaker: "Personal Identity: A Materialist's Account" 157 13 Commentary on Williams 163 Bernard Williams: "Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity" 168 14 Commentary on Parfit 173 Derek Parfit: Reasons and Persons, "What We Believe Ourselves To Be" 178 Part V Post-structuralism 193 15 Commentary on Freud 195 Sigmund Freud: "The Ego and the Id" 200 16 Commentary on Foucault 206 Michel Foucault: "About the Beginnings of the Hermeneutics of the Self:Two Lectures at Dartmouth" 221 17 Commentary on Ricoeur 220 Paul Ricoeur: "Personal Identity and Narrative Identity" 225 Part VI Feminist Philosophy 235 18 Commentary on de Beauvoir 237 Simone de Beauvoir: "Introduction" to The Second Sex 242 19 Commentary on Butler 252 Judith Butler: "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" 257 20 Commentary on Irigaray 266 Luce Irigaray: "Any Theory of the 'Subject' Has Always Been Appropriated by the 'Masculine' " 271 21 Commentary on Mackenzie 279 Catriona Mackenzie: "Imagining Oneself Otherwise" 284 Bibliography 300 Index 305

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Details

• NCID: BA71080921
• ISBN:
  • 1405112042
• LCCN: 2004016179
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, MA
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 317 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BD438.5
  • DC22 : 126
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Self (Philosophy)
  • LCSH : Subjectivity
  • LCSH : Self (Philosophy) -- History
  • LCSH : Subjectivity -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA39656467