Jerrold Seigel

Broschiertes Buch

The Idea of the Self

Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century

Beschreibung

This is a magisterial new account of how major Western European thinkers have confronted the self since the seventeenth century. Jerrold Seigel explores the ways in which key figures have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of inner tensions and external pressures.

Autor

Jerrold Seigel is William J. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at New York University. His previous books include Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 (1986) and The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation and the Self in Modern Culture (1995).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 734
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1138g
• ISBN-13: 9780521605540
• ISBN-10: 0521605547
• Artikelnr.: 12949965

Rezensionen

'The Idea of the Self is quite simply the most important and convincing book about Western thinking about the self that I have encountered. The scholarship is both deep and sweeping. Seigel's readings of a wide variety of texts over more than three centuries are cogent and beautifully nuanced, and he is remarkably adept at placing his texts in their relevant national contexts. The result is intellectual history at its very best ... quite an event.' Anthony la Vopa, Professor of History, North Carolina State University

The Idea of the Self is quite simply the most important and convincing book about Western thinking about the self that I have encountered. The scholarship is both deep and sweeping. Seigel's readings of a wide variety of texts over more than three centuries are cogent and beautifully nuanced, and he is remarkably adept at placing his texts in their relevant national contexts. The result is intellectual history at its very best É quite an event.' Anthony la Vopa, Professor of History, North Carolina State University