Part I: The denial of the subject in sociology: Bourdieu and the sociological tradition -- Actor network theory: the place of the subject within constructionist sociology -- Part II: Keeping to the subject: subjectivity in modern art: Barnett Newman: existentialism and the transcendent subject -- Georg Baselitz: fragmented subjectivity -- Carnality and power: the human subject in the work of Francis Bacon -- Part III: Locating the subject: Kieslowski's subjects -- Only in the present: subjectivity and time