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Informationen zum Autor Kristina Atkins writes speculative fiction inspired by mythos from around the world, complex human relationships, and her own experiences living with mental illness. After earning her BA in Linguistics from Brigham Young University in 2008, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Converse College in 2012. She lives in Denver, where she and her husband spend countless hours chasing their three young sons (and sometimes catching them!). She collects Tarot decks, dyes her hair mermaid colors, and procrastinates by decorating her home. Klappentext 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. It covers the rise of the philosophy of the subject, its crisis in postmodernity, and the re-articulation of selfhood, agency, and personal identity in very recent times. The book provides a comprehensive, accessible, and high-quality text that introduces the reader to various conceptions of self and subjectivity in relation to their historical, ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical contexts. The volume features essays by Descartes, Hume, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, Foucault, Judith Butler, Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit, and many others. Zusammenfassung Presents 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. 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 Comm...
