The impertinent self
Subtitle: a heroic history of modernity and film
By: Josef Fruchtl ; translated by Sarah L. Kirkby.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780804757355; 9780804757362
Subjects: Heroes in motion pictures; Heroes in literature; Self (Philosophy); Philosophy, Modern
Work titles: Unverschämte Ich.
Notes: "An abridged version of the German edition."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : heroes like us; title: Hegel, the western and classical modernity; title: The myth and the frontier; title: The hero in the epochs of mythical and the bourgeois; title: The end of the individual; title: The end of the subject; title: Romanticism, crime and agonal modernity; title: The return of tragedy in modernity; title: Heroes of coolness and the ironist; title: Nietzsche, science fiction and hybrid modernity; title: Heroic individualismus and metaphysics; title: Superhumans, supermen, cyborgs; title: Heroes of the future.