Title: On willing selves : neoliberal politics vis-à-vis the neuroscientific challenge /
Authors: Maasen, Sabine, 1960-; Sutter, Barbara.
Publisher: Plagrave Macmiilan,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Will.; Neurosciences.; Self; Political science Philosophy
Contents: Introduction : reviving a sociology of willing selves / Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter -- Self, past and present -- Self-help : the making of neoscocial selves in neoliberal society / Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter and Stefanie Duttweiler -- Technologies of the will and their Christian roots / Alois Hahn, Marén Schorch -- Self and (socio-)scientific knowledge -- Governing the will in a neurochemical age / Nikolas Rose -- The person as an effect of communication / Armin Nassehi -- Self and politics -- Creating citizen-consumers? public service reform and (un)willing selves / John Clarke, Janet Newman, Louise Westmarland -- Neopolitics : voluntary action in the new regieme / Barbara Cruikshank -- 'Craving' research : smart drugs and the elusiveness of desire / Mariana Valverde -- Self and morality -- From voluntary to relational action : responsibility in question / Kenneth J. Gergen -- The role of the self-model for self-determination / Tillmann Vierkant.