Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Inheriting Problems and Paradoxes: Subjectivity and Modern Philosophy -- I. Descartes and the birth of the modern cogito -- II. Spinoza's philosophy of substance: the decomposition and recomposition of the subject -- III. Hegelian phenomenology: constructing the subject of history -- 2. Marxism and Subjectivity: from Lukács to Althusser -- I. Returning to Lukács -- II. The encounter between structuralism and subjectivity -- III. Althusser and the repositioning of the subject -- 3. Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity and the Vita Lingua -- I. Lacan's theory of the subject -- II. The paradox of the subject: between philosophy and psychoanalysis -- III. Psychoanalysis, subjectivity and the political -- 4. Derrida, Subjectivity and the Politics of Différance -- I. Situating deconstruction: Derrida, Althusser and Lacan -- II. Deconstruction and the subject: contesting the subject as self-presence -- III. Deconstruction and political critique -- 5. The Discursive Construction of the Subject -- I. Archaeologies of the subject -- II. Foucauldian dilemmas: thinking the limits of discourse -- III. Genealogies of the subject: power and subjection -- Conclusion - The Persistence of the Subject -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.