Senses of the Subject

by Judith Butler

Book Overview

This book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon. Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections on the psychic life of power and the possibility of self-narration, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082326467X
• ISBN13: 9780823264674
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"