Book, Senses of the subject, The[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. This book brings together essays by Judith Butler, written over two decades, that detail her reflections on the roles of passions in the formation of the subject. Based on his early work on Hegelian desire and his subsequent reflections on the psychic life of power and the possibility of reporting oneself, Butler shows, in different philosophical contexts, how the self that seeks to constitute itself is already affected and formed against their will by social and discourse powers. The author sheds light on the desire to live, the practice and danger of mourning, love and modes of dispossession, addressing key issues about gender, sexuality and race from different analyses. Taken together, these essays trace the development of Butler's ideas about ethical relations.