The future of the self : inventing the postmodern person /

Walter Truett Anderson considers ideas about the self that have been held by poets and philosophers in the past, and that are held by people in other societies today, and then takes us on a tour of challenges to the modern Western concept of self that are now emerging from various fields of contempo...

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Main Author: Anderson, Walt, 1933-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : J.P. Tarcher, [1997], ©1997
New York : c1997
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505 0 0 |t Introduction: Everybody's Identity Crisis --  |g 1  |t A Brief History of the Self --  |g 2.  |t Twilight of the Modern Self --  |g 3.  |t From Modern Self to Postmodern Selves --  |g 4.  |t The Selves and Stories of Women --  |g 5.  |t The Multitudinous Brain --  |g 6.  |t The Shifting Boundaries of the Body --  |g 7.  |t When People Are Not Themselves --  |g 8.  |t The Chemical Connection --  |g 9.  |t The Self's Adventures in Cyberspace --  |g 10.  |t Post-Identity Ethics --  |g 11.  |t The New Economics of Identity --  |g 12.  |t The Global Politics of Not Being Had --  |g 13.  |t Liberation from the Self: Where East Meets West --  |g 14.  |t Futures of the Self. 
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