Declensions of the Self : a Bestiary of Modernity.

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Author / Creator:Defert, Jean-Jacques.
Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (352 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168651
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Other authors / contributors:Tchir, Trevor.
Webb, Dan.
ISBN:9781443815925
1443815926
1443815926
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This work is a collective reflection on the modern self as a narrative. Modernity as a metamorphic conglomeration of permeating discourses, new practices and institutional forms, a historical unfolding of centrifugal and centripetal discursive dynamics of regulation and normalization offers limitless grounds for a critical investigation. The modern self, both as the revelation of the inner self and as a reflection of the collective, arises from the dialogical interplay Otherin the intersubject ...
Other form:Print version: 9781847187260