From Self to Selfie A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kennedy, Angus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Panton, James (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Social sciences.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Political sociology.; Self and Identity.; Popular Social Sciences.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Political Sociology.

This edited collection charts the rise and the fall of the self, from its emergence as an autonomous agent during the Enlightenment, to the modern-day selfie self, whose existence is realised only through continuous external validation. Tracing the trajectory of selfhood in its historical developmen...