Self And Subjectivity

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.

Kim Atkins is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Philosophy Today, and The International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction..

Part I: Early Modern Philosophy.

1. Commentary on Descartes (Rene Descartes: "Meditation II").

2. Commentary on Locke (John Locke: "Of Identity and Diversity".

3. Commentary on Hume.

David Hume: "Of Personal Identity"..

Part II: Later Modern Philosophy.

4. Commentary on Kant.

Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, "Paralogisms of Pure Reasons (A)" (first, second, and third paralogisms).

5. Commentary on Hegel.

G.W.F.Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, "Self-consciousness: Lordship and Bondage".

6. Commentary on Nietzsche.

Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Genealogy of Morals"..

Part III: Phenomenology and Existentialism.

7. Commentary on Sartre.

Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Look".

8. Commentary on Merleau-Ponty.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: "The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility".

9. Commentary on Heidegger.

Martin Heidegger: "Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein"..

Part IV: Analytic Philosophy.

10. Commentary on Strawson.

P. F. Strawson: "Persons".

11. Commentary on Frankfurt.

Harry Frankfurt: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person".

12. Commentary on Shoemaker.

Sydney Shoemaker: "Personal Identity: A Materialists's Account".

13. Commentary on Williams (Bernard Williams: "Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity".

14. Commentary of Parfit.

Derek Parfit: Reasons and Persons, "What We Believe Ourselves To Be"..

Part V: Post-structuralism.

15. Commentary on Freud.

Sigmund Freud: "The Ego and the Id".

16. Commentary on Foucault.

Michel Foucault: "About the Beginnings of ten Hermeneutics of the Self: two Lectures at Dartmouth".

17. Commentary on Ricoeur.

Paul Ricoeur: "Personal Identity and Narrative Identity"..

Part VI: Feminist Philosophy.

18. Commentary on de Beauvoir.

Simone de Beauvooir: "Introduction" to The Second Sex.

19. Commentary on Butler.

Judith Butler: "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity".

20. Commentary on Irigaray.

Luce Irgaray: "Any Theory of the 'Subject' Has Always Been Appropriated by the 'Masculine'".

21. Commentary on Mackenzie.

Catriona Mackenzie: "Imaging Oneself Otherwise".

Bibliography.

Index.