Subjectivity

22 books

How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism, 1719–1900 cover
How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism, 1719–1900 Nancy Armstrong CITIC Press Group·Dafang · 2025 What role did the novel play in the formation of the modern individual? How does literature shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us?…
Michel Foucault: A Philosophical Attempt to Escape the Self cover
Michel Foucault: A Philosophical Attempt to Escape the Self Yasuyuki Shinkai Chongwen Publishing House · 2025 Michel Foucault was a French philosopher who deeply influenced twentieth-century thought. His lifelong intellectual practice not only interrogated the…
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory cover
Rating 4.2
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Rosi Braidotti Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 Nomadic Subjects is the magnum opus of Rosi Braidotti, the Italian-born philosopher and feminist theorist. Since its publication it has consistently s…
Desert Islands and Other Texts cover
Rating 4.7
Desert Islands and Other Texts 吉尔·德勒兹 / David Lapyard Nanjing University Press · 2018 This is the first collection of essays by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, edited by his student David Lapoujade, a professor at the University …
Psychoanalysis of the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Daughters Under Domination cover
Rating 3.6
Psychoanalysis of the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Daughters Under Domination Tamaki Saito Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 This book is the Chinese translation of psychiatrist and University of Tsukuba professor Tamaki Saito's work focusing on mother-daughter relationships…
You Must Tear Down That High Wall with Your Own Hands cover
Rating 3.3
You Must Tear Down That High Wall with Your Own Hands 琦殿 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2026 【Celebrated emotional writer Qidian's transformative work after eight years of reflection—reclaim your agency, tear down the walls of dependence, fear…
The Image of the Human: Imagination, Performance, and Culture cover
Rating 4.2
The Image of the Human: Imagination, Performance, and Culture 克里斯托夫·武尔夫 / 陈红燕 / 彭正梅 / 姜丹丹 East China Normal University Press · 2025 What role do images, imagination, and the imagined world play in how humans come to know the world? How do they foster our understanding of others, ou…
Black Skin, White Masks cover
Rating 4.6
Black Skin, White Masks 弗朗兹·法农 / 陈瑞桦 People's Literature Publishing House · 2023 “Oh, my body, make of me a man who questions forever!” Black Skin, White Masks is a landmark work and the deepest cry of pain from the colonized. With…
'Self' and 'Other': A Study of the Dimensions of Zizek's Ideological Subjectivity cover
Rating 3.7
'Self' and 'Other': A Study of the Dimensions of Zizek's Ideological Subjectivity 袁小云 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019 This book argues that Žižek's ideological theory of subjectivity is essentially a grafting of Lacanian psychoanalysis onto Marx's theory of ideology, …
I Virtualize, Therefore I Am cover
Rating 3.8
I Virtualize, Therefore I Am 杜骏飞 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026 Cutting-edge technology is creating an unprecedented virtual age. Framed by the concept of “communicative humanism,” this book presents a theoretical …
The Spiritual Symptoms of the Digital Age cover
Rating 4.2
The Spiritual Symptoms of the Digital Age 姜宇辉 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026 Smartphones and the internet seem to make it ever easier to find friends—but can you truly open your heart to your online friends? When we spend hours…
Sense of Deserving: Reclaiming Your Own Subjectivity cover
Rating 2.8
Sense of Deserving: Reclaiming Your Own Subjectivity 王洪梅 Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2026 This book examines self-perception, social interaction, intimate relationships, information overload, consumer traps, the desire to control, and point…
Research on College Students' Self-Evaluation Ability and Its Cultivation cover
Rating 2.8
Research on College Students' Self-Evaluation Ability and Its Cultivation 谭晓斐 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025 In recent years, the important role of self-education—which highlights the subjectivity and self-awareness of college students—in ideological and poli…
Collected Works of Merleau-Ponty (Volume 7): Signs cover
Rating 4.5
Collected Works of Merleau-Ponty (Volume 7): Signs 梅洛-庞蒂 The Commercial Press · 2025 Signs is a collection of essays by the renowned French philosopher Merleau-Ponty, addressing central philosophical questions of language, society, rea…
Generating Subjectivity: Merleau-Ponty and Idealism cover
Rating 4.2
Generating Subjectivity: Merleau-Ponty and Idealism 刘哲 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is not only a study in the history of philosophy on the early phenomenological theory of the twentieth-century French phenomenologist Mauric…
Internet-Assisted Childhood: Transformations and Reflections on Children's Reading under Digital Media cover
Rating 3.3
Internet-Assisted Childhood: Transformations and Reflections on Children's Reading under Digital Media 尹国强 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 Taking an integrated perspective of people, technology, and culture, this book examines children's digital reading and follows a logic that moves from…
Temporality: Self and Other: From Husserl and Heidegger to Levinas cover
Rating 3.9
Temporality: Self and Other: From Husserl and Heidegger to Levinas 王恒 / 黄裕生 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2023 This book argues that the problem of time is a fundamental and enduring issue within the phenomenological tradition: Husserl's time-consciousness is s…
The Anxiety of Enlightenment: Reflections on the Enlightenment Centered on Dialectic of Enlightenment cover
Rating 4.1
The Anxiety of Enlightenment: Reflections on the Enlightenment Centered on Dialectic of Enlightenment 刘森林 Beijing Normal University Press · 2023 The critique of Enlightenment in Dialectic of Enlightenment seeks to uncover the affective foundations of Enlightenment. Enlightenment is a radical an…
The Truth of the Impossible: Images of Lacanian Philosophy (Revised Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
The Truth of the Impossible: Images of Lacanian Philosophy (Revised Edition) Zhang Yibing Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2020 Impossible Truth of Being: Lacanian Philosophical Reflections (Revised Edition) approaches Lacan's philosophy, the French master of psychoanalysis and…
The Body That Refuses to Take Its Place: Decoding Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy from the Perspective of the Body cover
Rating 3.6
The Body That Refuses to Take Its Place: Decoding Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy from the Perspective of the Body 李琍 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018 Although Descartes is hailed as the "father of modern philosophy," a series of unsolved mysteries surround his thought, and people cannot even agree o…