Inventing Our Selves : Psychology, Power, and Personhood - Couverture souple

Rose, Nikolas S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521646073 ISBN 13 : 9780521646079

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Inventing our Selves Inventing Our Selves radically approaches the regime of the self and the values that animate it. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other 'psy' disciplines have played a key role in 'inventing our selves', changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists, and a multitude of other authorities. These mutations are intrinsically linked to recent changes in ways of understanding and exercising political power, which have stressed the values of autonomy, personal responsibility, and choice. This critical history diagnoses and destabilises our contemporary 'condition' of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.

Revue de presse :

'The scope and isnights of what Rose has to say about what it is to become, and be, a human alone suffice to ensure the very great importance of this volume.' Paul Heelas, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521646073
• ISBN 13: 9780521646079
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 222