Education
Butler attended Bennington College and then Yale University where she studied philosophy, receiving her B.A. in 1978 and her PhD in 1984. Her dissertation was subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987). In her dissertation, Butler explores desire in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit tracing the ways in which Hegelian desire is appropriated by Kojève, Hyppolite, and Sartre. The published version of her dissertation also includes sections on Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault.
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