The idea of the self : thought and experience in western Europe since the seventeenth century / Jerrold Seigel.
| Author/creator | Seigel, Jerrold E. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| Description | viii, 724 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Dimensions and contexts of selfhood -- Between ancients and moderns -- Personal identity and modern selfhood: Locke -- Self-centeredness and sociability: Mandeville and Hume -- Adam Smith and modern self-fashioning -- 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 -- 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 -- 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, Fouillé, and Bergson -- Will, reflection, and self-overcoming: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Being and transcendence: Heidegger -- Deaths and transfigurations of the self: Foucault and Derrida. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 660-713) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004049664 |
| ISBN | 0521844177 |
| ISBN | 0521605547 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BF697 .S45 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |