Allegra de Laurentiis 
Subjects in the Ancient and Modern World 
On Hegel’s Theory of Subjectivity

Being a subject and being conscious of being one are different realities. According to Hegel, the difference is not only conceptual, but also influences people’s experience of the world and of one another. This book aims to explain some basic aspects of Hegel’s conception of subjectivity with particular regard to the difference he saw in ancient and modern ways of thinking about and acting as individuals, persons and moral subjects.

Table of Content

Introduction A Philosophy of the History Philosophy The Experience of Thought Conceptualizing Thought Hegel’s Reading of Plato’s Parmenides Greek Moral Vocabulary: ‘Shame is the Greatest Compulsion’ Dialectic Matters: Starting Out with Simple Motion Works Cited Index

About the author

ALLEGRA DE LAURENTIIS is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has been teaching and writing on the history of Western philosophy for the past twenty years.