The political subject : essays on the self from art, politics and science / edited by Wendy Wheeler.

Other author Wheeler, Wendy.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Lawrence & Wishart, 2000.
Description284 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction, Technological dream of order? : or politics otherwise? -- Bad manners at the anatomist's table : Tyson's Pygmie and the naturalisation of truth / Erica Fudge -- Navigating selfhood : geographical space and the early modern remapping of the subject / Colin Counsell -- Local history : property, place and history in the English country house poem / Paul McSorley -- Prostitution and the growth of desire : the rise and fall of sentimental economics in the eighteenth century / Mary Peace -- Fallacies of memory in nineteenth-century psychology : subjectivity and cultural authority / Jenny Bourne Taylor -- 'Here with the karroo-bushes and the red sand' : Olive Schreiner and colonial self-reliance / Carolyn Burdett -- Politics in the nursery / Sebastian Kraemer -- Mass psychology and the (re)analysis of the self / Steve Reicher -- On the subject of new labour / Alan Finlayson -- 'We have grown to look at the large world as part of us' : modernity and the nation in two Indian novels of the 1930s / Ashok Bery -- Getting some distance on the news : Simon Armitage, Douglas Oliver and the WTO / Peter Middleton -- Self, community and history in the postcolonial novel since 1945 / Stuart Murray -- Complex 'I' / Paul Cilliers and Tanya de Villiers -- Feeling state and the emotionally literate self / James Park -- Life of men : an ethics of the male self / Jonathan Rutherford -- Chip and I / Kevin Warwick.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
ISBN0853159149

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Joyner General Stacks JA83 .P64 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold