The Modern Self in the Labyrinth : : Politics and the Entrapment Imagination / / Eyal Chowers.
This book explores the distinct historical-political imagination of the self in the twentieth century and advances two arguments. First, it suggests that we should read the history of modern political philosophy afresh in light of a theme that emerges in the late eighteenth century: the rift between...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Modernity: Hyper-Order and Doubleness
- 2 Proto-Entrapment Theories
- 3 Max Weber: Between Homo-Hermeneut and the Lebende Maschine
- 4 Freud and the Castration of the Modern
- 5 Michel Foucault: From the Prison-House of Language to the Silence of the Panopticon
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index