Idea of the Self Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century

Name: Idea of the Self Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521605540

ISBN-10: 0521605547

ISBN-13: 9780521605540

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jerrold Seigel

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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. Jerrold Seigel combines theoretical and contextual approaches to explore the ways key figures have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of inner tensions and external pressures. Clarifying that recent "post-modernist" accounts belong firmly to the tradition of Western thinking they have sought to supercede, Seigel provides a persuasive alternative to claims that the modern self is typically egocentric or disengaged. Both a Fulbright Fellow and a National…

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 734
Size: 6.22" wide x 8.98" long x 1.81" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introductory



Dimensions and contexts of selfhood



Between ancients and moderns



British Modernity



Personal identity and modern selfhood: Locke



Self-centeredness and sociability: Mandeville and Hume



Adam Smith and modern self-fashioning



Society and Self-Knowledge: France from Old Regime to Restoration



Sensationalism, reflection, and inner freedom: Condillac and Diderot



Wholeness, withdrawal, and self-revelation: Rousseau



Reflectivity, sense-experience, and the perils of social life: Maine de Biran and Constant



The World and the Self in German Idealism



Autonomy, limitation, and the purposiveness of nature: Kant



Homology and Bildung: Herder, Humboldt, and Goethe



The ego and the world: Fichte, Novalis, and Schelling



Universal selfhood: Hegel



Modern Visions and Illusions



Dejection, insight, and self-making: Coleridge and Mill



From cultivated subjectivity to the culte du moi: polarities of self-formation in nineteenth-century France



Society and selfhood reconciled: Janet, Fouille, and Bergson



Will, reflection, and self-overcoming: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche



Being and transcendence: Heidegger



Deaths and transfigurations of the self: Foucault and Derrida



Epilogue


Notes


Index