On willing selves
Subtitle: neoliberal politics vis-a-vis the neuroscientific challenge
By: edited by Sabine Maasen & Barbara Sutter.
Contributors: Sutter, Barbara.; Maasen, Sabine, 1960-
Publisher: Plagrave Macmiilan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Self.; Neurosciences.; Political science -- Philosophy.; Will
Notes: Includesbibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter; title: Self, past and present / Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter, Stefanie Duttweiler; title: Self-help : the making of neoscocial selves in neoliberal society / Alois Hahn, Marin Schorch; title: Technologies of the will and their Christian roots : self and (socio-)scientific knowledge / Nikolas Rose; title: Governing the will in a neurochemical age / Armin Nassehi; title: The person as an effect of communication self and politics / John Clarke, Janet Newman, Louise Westmarland; title: Creating citizen-consumers? public service reform and (un)willing selves / Barbara Cruikshank; title: Neopolitics : voluntary action in the new regime / Mariana Valverde; title: Craving research : smart drugs and the elusiveness of desire self and morality / Kenneth J. Gergen; title: From voluntary to relational action : responsibility in question / Tillmann Vierkant; title: The role of the self-model for self-determination.