Self and Subjectivity

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1204-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkins, Kim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.