The Modern Self in the Labyrinth
Subtitle: Politics and the Entrapment Imagination
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780674013308
Subjects: Political science & theory; Topics in philosophy; Politics/International Relations; Political; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology - General; Social institutions; Psychological aspects; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Alienation (Social psychology); Civilization, Modern; Self
Description: "Eyal Chowers shows how thinkers working within diverse theoretical frameworks and fields nevertheless converge in depicting a self that has lost its capacity to control or transform social institutions. He argues that Weber, Freud, and Foucault helped shape the distinctive thought and culture of the past century by portraying a dehumanized and distorted self marked by sameness. This new political imagination proposes coping with modernity through the recovery, integration, and assertion of the self, rather than by mastering and refashioning collective institutions."--BOOK JACKET.