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New PDF release: Subjects of Desire: Human Reflections in 20th Century France

By Judith Butler,Philippe Sabot,Damon Young

ISBN-10: 0231159994

ISBN-13: 9780231159999

This vintage paintings via essentially the most very important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the needing topic from Hegel’s formula in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation through Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive demanding situations waged opposed to his metaphysics and look at of the topic, all whereas revealing ambiguities inside his place. the result's a worldly reconsideration of the post-Hegelian culture that has predominated in sleek French thought.

Butler’s learn is still a provocative and well timed intervention in modern debates at the subconscious, the powers of subjection, and the topic. This version encompasses a foreword by way of French philosophical pupil Philippe Sabot, which observed the French version of Subjects of Desire and used to be commonly praised for its prepared knowing of Butler’s perception and legacy. this is often the 1st translation of the foreword into English.

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