Simulated Selves
Subtitle: The Undoing of Personal Identity in the Modern World
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9781350091108
Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Identity (Philosophical concept); Self; Identity (Psychology); Social & political philosophy
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Half-Title Page; title: Series; title: Title Page; title: Contents; title: Preface and Acknowledgements; title: 1 Introduction; title: 2 The Narrated Self: Time and the Dramatisation of Historical Agency; title: 3 The Publication of the Self: the Sublimation of Personal Identity in Publicity and Art Appreciation; title: 4 The Disintegration of the Self: the Origins of Abstraction and the Deobjectification of the World; title: 5 The Democratisation of the Self: the Integration of Creative Endeavour into the Fabric of Daily Life and the Death of Art; title: 6 The Transpersonalisation of the Self: the Material Culture of Communication and the Communalisation of Identity; title: 7 The Psychological Self: the Pathology of Art and Cinematographic Modes of Self-remembering; title: 8 The Linguistic Self: the Deverberation of the Self and the End of Meaning; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Copyright