{"product_id":"willful-subjects-9780822357834","title":"Willful Subjects","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWillful Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eQueer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others\u003c\/i\u003e, all also published by Duke University Press; as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Politics of Emotion\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStrange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDifferences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328948113682,"sku":"9780822357834","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb160cf9-d69d-4fce-8548-6305c0368aa0.jpg?v=1727755420","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/willful-subjects-9780822357834","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}