SENSES OF THE SUBJECT

Book ID/图书代码： 04831114B74707

English Summary/英文概要： This book brings together a group of Judith Butler’s 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 seeks to make itself finds itself already affected and formed against its will by social and discursive powers. And yet, agency and action are not necessarily nullified by this primary impingement. Primary sense impressions register this dual situation of being acted on and acting, countering the idea that acting requires one to overcome the situation of being affected by others and the linguistic and social world. This dual structure of sense sheds light on the desire to live, the practice and peril of grieving, embodied resistance, love, and modes of enthrallment and dispossession. Working with theories of embodiment, desire, and relationality in conversation with philosophers as diverse as Hegel, Spinoza, Descartes, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and Fanon, Butler reanimates and revises her basic propositions concerning the constitution and deconstitution of the subject within fields of power, taking up key issues of gender, sexuality, and race in several analyses. Taken together, these essays track the development of Butler’s embodied account of ethical relations.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 此書集結芭特勒二十幾年來的哲學文章，詳盡說明她在主體形構之下結合黑格爾、齊克果、笛卡爾、史賓諾沙、馬勒伯朗士、莫里斯．梅洛-龐蒂、弗洛依德、伊瑞葛來和法農的思想，來反思「熱情」(Passion)的角色。她描寫早期對黑格爾學派底下的慾望、對於權力的精神生命及自我敘述的可能性的反思。這本書思考「熱情」如：慾望、憤怒、愛情和悲傷，如何在權力的特定歷史領域框架下，與「成為主體」這件事產生密切關聯。

芭特勒展現出不同的哲學框架下，自我如何設法發現本身早已被社會與支配的權力影響並建構來對抗它的意志。但這樣的原始衝擊不一定會取消其作用者與行動。原始感知印象符合這樣主動與被動的雙重情況，這樣的雙重性也打破主動需要克服被他人及語言社會性的世界影響的情況。感知的雙重結構清楚顯現生活的慾望、悲痛的實踐與危險，同時包含拒絕、愛情、迷惑的形式與奪佔。

芭特勒研究體現、慾望、關係性的理論，與不同的哲學家對話，發展並校正她關於權力領域之下主體的建構與解構的基本命題，她著手幾份關於性別、性以及種族議題的研究，這些文章能追溯芭特勒解釋道德關係的體現如何發展。 (Ramona)

Awards/获奖情况：Butler concludes the Introduction to this book thus: Acted on, I act still, but it is hardly this I that acts alone, and even though, and precisely because, it never gets done with being undone. In these eloquent, passionately dialectical, and vertiginous essays, Butler relentlessly tracks our being undone by others, by language, by things, by institutions, and by the normative formations that hold us upright beyond our standing upright in the writings of, among others, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel, Merleau Ponty, Irigaray, and Fanon. This is echt Butler: a necessity for those who already know her work, and a generous point of entry for those philosophers who have yet to find their way to her thought. --J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

"In this exceptional collection, Judith Butler displays the unusually vivid, even startling insight that makes her indisputably the world’s most interesting contemporary philosopher. These lucid essays climb in and out of the me, the her, the you, dream and reality, subject, object, nature and the preternatural, meaning and its deadly discontents. Butler wrestles the narratives of embodiment into language that lives."--Patricia J. Williams, Columbia Law School

"For me, Judith Butler is simply the most important philosopher of our age. This is an extremely interesting and wide-ranging collection of essays by that provide characteristically close readings of an impressive range of philosophers, some more closely associated with Butler’s work (Hegel, Kierkegaard, Sartre and Irigaray) others much less so (Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza and Merleau-Ponty). What ties the whole book together is a powerful and interconnected set of concerns with the pre-conscious, sensate formation of subjectivity and the ethical valence of the experience of dependence and susceptibility."--Simon Critchley, The New School for Social Research

About the Author/作者介绍： 美國後結構主義學者，其研究領域有女性主義、酷兒理論、政治哲學以及倫理學。於加州大學柏克萊分校擔任修辭學與比較文學系教授。著有《性/別惑亂—女性主義與身分顛覆》、《權力的精神生活：服從的理論》、《危險生活：哀悼與暴力之力》、《消解性別》、《脆弱不安的生命》。

JUDITH BUTLER is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection; Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning; Undoing Gender; Giving an Account of Oneself (Fordham); Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?; and Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism.

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