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Self and Subjectivity
Kim Atkins (Edited by), K Atkins (Author)
9781405112048, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 6 December 2004
336 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.708 kg
"...promises to establish [itself] as a key reference text, an invaluable aid for teachers as much as students in the fields of philosophy, social and political sciences, literary and cultural studies." The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory” Vol.14, 2006 “Self and Subjectivity is a superb reader. Kim Atkins’s gem-like introductions to each reading, together with the generosity and diversity of her selections, will make this an invaluable text for teachers across a range of disciplines.” J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research “Atkins’s imaginative selection of texts from both analytic and continental thinkers –along with cogent samples of feminist, psychoanalytic, and postmodern theories of selfhood – places this work at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship.” Richard Kearney, Boston College “The extracts are wide-ranging and well-chosen; and Atkins’s commentaries on her selections are informative, clear, and concise. This will be an extremely useful collection for both students and teachers of philosophy.” Christopher Cordner, University of Melbourne
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.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I Early Modern Philosophy 5 1 Commentary on Descartes 7 René 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
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
