What am I referring to when I say 'I'? This little word is so easy to use in daily life, yet it has become the focus of intense theoretical debate. Nick Mansfield explores how our understanding of our subjectivity has developed over the past century.

The concern with the self, with our subjectivity, is the main point of reference in modern Western societies. This work explores how notions of subjectivity have developed over the 20th century, analyzing the work of modern and postmodern theorists such as Freud, Foucault, and Haraway.