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Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present

By Roy Porter

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1996
ISBN
0415142792, 9780415142793, 9780203439159, 9780415142809, 0415142806
LCC
BD450 .R4448 1997
Open Library ID
OL21200489M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1469317 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
296\296
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze different religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics and post-modernist literary theory. Challenging the received version of the "ascent of western man," they assess the discursive construction of the self in the light of political, technological and social changes.

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