Unspeakable SubjectsIn groundbreaking readings linking works of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes with contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, Unspeakable Subjects argues that the concepts and discourses that have come to define European modernitythe subject's extension and responsibility, genealogies of intention and of freedom, the literary, legal, and medical construction of the body, among othersarise as strategies for evading a profound redefinition of