Senses of the Subject

Name: Senses of the Subject
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ISBN: 9780823264674

ISBN-10: 082326467X

ISBN-13: 9780823264674

Edition: 2015

Authors: Judith Butler

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This book brings together several of Judith Butler's philosophical essays that continue and elaborate her reflections on subject formation. Departing from her early work on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, this book seeks to understand how the senses that take form as passion, desire, rage, and grief are formed, but also how they enter into, and are transformed by, the ongoing historical formation of the subject. Countering an idea that the subject posits itself in a purely voluntary way, Butler shows how the task of self-formation always takes place within a social and discursive world that institutes and acts upon the subject. Primary sense impressions register this dual situation of…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.