This course is designed as a graduate seminar that is thematically organized around a set of related themes stemming from the modern philosophies of subjectivity. The course thus has two major points of view. The first deals with a more comprehensive understanding of the problems/themes in depicting subjectivity, i.e., a thematic focus related to the problems of consciousness, self-consciousness, freedom, autonomy, self-determination, experience, life, world, truth, authenticity. The second addresses a possible dialogue among the thinkers that we will study, i.e., a historical focus. The main objective of the course is to achieve an understanding of the pivotal texts that mark a turning point in the history of modern philosophy (Descartes, Kant, and Hegel) and in the 20th century continental philosophy (Heidegger). For this purpose, we will read some primary and secondary sources with a focus on the themes listed above. In reading these pivotal texts, we will also read some secondary sources that problematize the modern notions of the subject. Lastly, we will read an interview of Derrida as an example of post-structuralist critique.