{"product_id":"the-idea-of-the-self-thought-and-experience-in-western-europe-since-the-seventeenth-century-paperback-9780521605540","title":"The Idea of the Self; Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century (Paperback) 9780521605540","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Idea of the Self\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 2005 book explores how major Western European thinkers have confronted the self from the seventeenth century to the present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJerrold Seigel (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521605540, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 17 February 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e734 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.8 x 4.6 cm, 1.13 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Seigel has written an important and invaluable book.' The New Republic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. In this 2005 book, Jerrold Seigel provides an original and penetrating narrative of how major Western European thinkers and writers have confronted the self since the time of Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. From an approach that is at once theoretical and contextual, he examines the way figures in Britain, France, and Germany have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of the inner tensions and external pressures that threaten to divide or overwhelm them. He makes clear that recent 'postmodernist' accounts of the self belong firmly to the tradition of Western thinking they have sought to supersede, and provides an open-ended and persuasive alternative to claims that the modern self is typically egocentric or disengaged.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Introductory: 1. Dimensions and contexts of selfhood\u003cbr\u003e 2. Between ancients and moderns\u003cbr\u003e Part II. British modernity: 3. Personal identity and modern selfhood: Locke\u003cbr\u003e 4. Self-centeredness and sociability: Mandeville and Hume\u003cbr\u003e 5. Adam Smith and modern self-fashioning\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Society and Self-Knowledge: France from Old Regime to Restoration: 6. Sensationalism, reflection, and inner freedom: Condillac and Diderot\u003cbr\u003e 7. Wholeness, withdrawal, self-revelation: Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reflectivity, sense-experience, and the perils of social life: Maine de Biran and Constant\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The World and the Self in German Idealism: 9. Autonomy, limitation, and the purposiveness of nature: Kant\u003cbr\u003e 10. Purposiveness and Bildung: Herder, Humboldt, and Goethe\u003cbr\u003e 11. The ego and the world: Fichte, Novalis, Schelling\u003cbr\u003e 12. Universal selfhood: Hegel\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Past in the Present: 13. Dejection, insight, and self-making: Coleridge and Mill\u003cbr\u003e 14. From cultivated subjectivity to the polarities of self-formation in nineteenth-century France\u003cbr\u003e 15. Society and selfhood reconciled: Janet, Fouill, Bergson\u003cbr\u003e 16. Will, reflection, and self-overcoming: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche\u003cbr\u003e 17. Being and transcendence: Heidegger\u003cbr\u003e 18. Deaths and transfigurations of the self: Foucault and Derrida\u003cbr\u003e 19. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e], History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909013725464,"sku":"9780521605540","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521605540i_d21c6e6a-6e85-40cb-97a4-7bc2661bcee2.jpg?v=1691370427","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-idea-of-the-self-thought-and-experience-in-western-europe-since-the-seventeenth-century-paperback-9780521605540","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}