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  title info:
    title: From Self to Selfie
    sub title: A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation
  name:
    name part: Kennedy, Angus.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Panton, James.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 228 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 development - from the Reformation onwards - the authors introduce the classic liberal account of the self, based on ideas of freedom and autonomy, that dominated Enlightenment discourse. Subsequent chapters explore whether this traditional notion has been eclipsed by new, more rigid, categories of identity, that alienate the self from itself and its possibilities: what I am, it seems, has become more important than what I might make of myself. These changing dynamics of selfhood - the transition From Self to Selfie - reveal not only the peculiar ways in which selfhood is problematized in contemporary society, but equally the tragic fragility of the selfie, in the absence of any social authority that could give it some security.
  table of contents: Part 1 -- 1. Introduction: Classical and Contemporary Forms of Alienation; James Panton -- 2. The Emergence of the Self in History; Frank Furedi -- 3. In Praise of Selfish Individualism; Jamie Whyte. 4. Self-Enlightenment; Angus Kennedy -- 5. 'Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Wellbeing.' J.S. Mill and the Nineteenth-Century Liberal Individual; James Panton -- 6. The Rise and Fall of the Rule of Law; Jon Holbrook -- Part 2 -- 7. Autonomy and the Birth of Authenticity; Tim Black -- 8. Self, Society, Alienation: From Marx to Identity Politics; Josie Appleton -- 9.. Anti-Humanism and the Deconstruction of the Liberal Subject; James Heartfield -- 10. Narcissism and Identity; Claire Fox -- 11. New Forms of Alienation; Frank Furedi -- 12. Conclusion: The Self and Its Prospects; Angus Kennedy.
  note: edited by Angus Kennedy, James Panton.
  subject:
    topic: Self
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Political sociology
  subject:
    topic: Self and Identity
  subject:
    topic: Popular Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Political Sociology
  classification: BF697-697.5
  classification: 155.2
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030191948
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19194-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 190814
    record change date: 20191220130550.0
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