"Mortal Subjects" explores the intimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality as understood by major twentieth-century French philosophers. Christina Howells analyses thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida, drawing connections between body and soul, love and death, desire and passion. Through philosophical, phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives, the book demonstrates how the mortal subject?s vulnerability and finitude are not merely limitations but paradoxical strengths that shape human experience and transcendence. The work is valuable for scholars in contemporary philosophy, phenomenology and cultural theory, as well as readers fascinated by the perennial intersections of love, death and subjectivity. The book is structured into thematic chapters that critically engage with philosophical accounts of emotion, death, body-mind relations and subjectivity. It begins with an introduction linking love and death, then discusses phenomenology of emotion and forgetfulness of death, followed by religious philosophical perspectives focusing on body-soul unity. Subsequent chapters examine psychoanalytic thought on eros and thanatos, and conclude with the deconstruction of classical dualisms in contemporary thought. Each section interweaves analysis of French philosophical texts with broader debates in modern intellectual history, offering nuanced readings of subjectivity, mortality and human passion.