About the Book: Senses of the Subject
This book brings together a group of Judith Butlers philosophical essays
written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the
passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard,
Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon.
Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections on
the psychic life of power and the possibility of self-narration, this book
considers how passions such as desire, rage, love, and grief are bound up with
becoming a subject within specific historical fields of power. Butler shows in
different philosophical contexts how the self that