Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject by Lumsden, Simon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction

The Rise of Reason’s Authority The Metaphysics of Subjectivity The Poststructuralist Reception of German Idealism

Descartes and the Rise of the Knowing Subject Heidegger’s Critique of Hegel

2. Fichte’s striving subject

Critique of Dogmatism “Review of Aenesidemus” Self-Positing, Acting, and Intellectual Intuition The Check as a Realist Constraint Striving, Normativity, and the Thing-in-Itself The Unifying Function of Striving

3. Hegel: Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination

The Limits of Kant’s Epistemology Hegel’s Critique of Fichte Kant’s Subjectivism and the Promise of Apperception Thought and Experience The Phenomenology’s Reorientation of Self-Consciousness Spirit, Self-Determination, and Self-Consciousness

4. Heidegger, Care, and Selfhood

Das Man and Inauthenticity Anxiety, Individuation, and Authenticity Care Conscience and the Authentic Self Hegel and Heidegger

5. Derrida and the Question of Subjectivity

The Heideggerian Background Overcoming the Self-Present Subject Derrida’s Challenge to the Unified Subject Autonomy, Singularity, and Responsibility The Destabilizing and Skeptical Role of Reason in Hegel’s Thought Hegel’s Transformation of the Modern Subject Singularity and Responsibility in Derrida and Hegel

6. The Dialectic and Transcendental Empiricism: Deleuze’s Critique of Hegel

Sense-Experience and Individuation Individuation and the Critique of the Subject The Distorting Effects of Hegelian Negation Hegelian Self-Consciousness and the Transcendental Empirical The Reception of Kant’s Legacy in Deleuze and Hegel Hegel and the Dynamism of Modern Life Self-World Relation

Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index