Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France

by Judith Butler

Book Overview

This 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 Koj ve, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231159994
• ISBN13: 9780231159999
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"