About the Book:This now classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from Hegel’s formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit through its appropriation by Kojve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault, presenting how French reception of Hegel posed successive challenges to his metaphysics and view of the subject and revealed ambiguities within his position.