Self and Subjectivity

Introduction..

Part I: Early Modern Philosophy.

1. Commentary on Descartes (Rene Descartes: "Meditation II").

2. Commentary on Locke (John Locke: "Of Identity and Diversity".

3. Commentary on Hume.

David Hume: "Of Personal Identity"..

Part II: Later Modern Philosophy.

4. Commentary on Kant.

Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, "Paralogisms of Pure Reasons (A)" (first, second, and third paralogisms).

5. Commentary on Hegel.

G.W.F.Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, "Self-consciousness: Lordship and Bondage".

6. Commentary on Nietzsche.

Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Genealogy of Morals"..

Part III: Phenomenology and Existentialism.

7. Commentary on Sartre.

Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Look".

8. Commentary on Merleau-Ponty.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: "The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility".

9. Commentary on Heidegger.

Martin Heidegger: "Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein"..

Part IV: Analytic Philosophy.

10. Commentary on Strawson.

P. F. Strawson: "Persons".

11. Commentary on Frankfurt.

Harry Frankfurt: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person".

12. Commentary on Shoemaker.

Sydney Shoemaker: "Personal Identity: A Materialists's Account".

13. Commentary on Williams (Bernard Williams: "Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity".

14. Commentary of Parfit.

Derek Parfit: Reasons and Persons, "What We Believe Ourselves To Be"..

Part V: Post-structuralism.

15. Commentary on Freud.

Sigmund Freud: "The Ego and the Id".

16. Commentary on Foucault.

Michel Foucault: "About the Beginnings of ten Hermeneutics of the Self: two Lectures at Dartmouth".

17. Commentary on Ricoeur.

Paul Ricoeur: "Personal Identity and Narrative Identity"..

Part VI: Feminist Philosophy.

18. Commentary on de Beauvoir.

Simone de Beauvooir: "Introduction" to The Second Sex.

19. Commentary on Butler.

Judith Butler: "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity".

20. Commentary on Irigaray.

Luce Irgaray: "Any Theory of the 'Subject' Has Always Been Appropriated by the 'Masculine'".

21. Commentary on Mackenzie.

Catriona Mackenzie: "Imaging Oneself Otherwise".

Bibliography.

Index.