Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present
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Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze different religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics and post-modernist literary theory. Challenging the received version of the "ascent of western man," they assess the discursive construction of the self in the light of political, technological and social changes.
LF/970865/R
Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Roy Porter
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780415142809
- Release date
- 1996
