THE IDEA OF THE SELF by Jerrold Seigel ( 9780511818141 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

Item Details

Title:

THE IDEA OF THE SELF
THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE IN WESTERN EUROPE SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

By:

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£162.00
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10:

0511818149

ISBN 13:

9780511818141

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 June, 2012

Description:

This 2005 book explores how major Western European thinkers have confronted the self from the seventeenth century to the present.

Synopsis:

What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. In this 2005 book, Jerrold Seigel provides an original and penetrating narrative of how major Western European thinkers and writers have confronted the self since the time of Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. From an approach that is at once theoretical and contextual, he examines the way figures in Britain, France, and Germany have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of the inner tensions and external pressures that threaten to divide or overwhelm them. He makes clear that recent 'postmodernist' accounts of the self belong firmly to the tradition of Western thinking they have sought to supersede, and provides an open-ended and persuasive alternative to claims that the modern self is typically egocentric or disengaged.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF LIBERALISM (HB)

AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF LIBERALISM (PB)

BETWEEN CULTURES

BETWEEN CULTURES (HB)

BOHEMIAN PARIS (PB)

FIGURES ON THE HORIZON (HB)