Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the PresentRoy Porter Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the Present. The contributors analyse differing religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity. They examine these models from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics, and post-modernist literary theory. |
Contents
Peter Burke | 17 |
SELF AND SELFHOOD IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 29 |
SELFREFLECTION AND THE SELF | 49 |
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE FORMATION | 61 |
THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE HISTORY | 72 |
THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF CHARACTER IN | 84 |
GENDER MARRIAGE | 97 |
FEELINGS AND NOVELS | 119 |
PERSONAL | 156 |
GENDER SPACE AND MODERNITY | 167 |
STORIES OF THE | 186 |
THE MODERN AUDITORY I | 203 |
ASSEMBLING THE MODERN SELF | 224 |
DEATH AND THE SELF | 249 |
SELFUNDOING SUBJECTS | 262 |
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