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Author Defert, Jean-Jacques

Title Declensions of the Self : a Bestiary of Modernity
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; CREDITS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; REFLECTION ON METHODOLOGY AND ACADEMIC STRUCTURES; PART I; HAMLET'S REST (OF SILENCE); DISCIPLINE AND POSE; A BESTIARY OF THE WRITTEN BODY; PART II; WORKING AT THE LIMIT; TRANSGENERATIONAL HAUNTING AND UNRESOLVED TRAUMA; SELF-INTERPRETATION AND AGENCY IN MODERN HERMENEUTICS AND GENEALOGY; FORGIVENESS THEOLOGIES OF JUSTICE AND JEAN AMÉRY'S RESENTING SUBJECT; ARENDTIAN ACTION; PART III; IN THE EYE OF THE "I"; POPULAR MUSIC, MIDGETS, AND VICIOUS CIRCLES OF IDENTITY; THE BEAST TAMED
A SIMULATION FROM BEGINNING TO ENDTHE DIALECTICAL IMAGE OF THE "SAVAGE" IN ZOLA'S AESTHETICS; THE REMAINS OF THE CLONES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary This work is a collective reflection on the modern self as a narrative. Modernity as a metamorphic conglomeration of permeating discourses, new practices and institutional forms, a historical unfolding of centrifugal and centripetal discursive dynamics of regulation and normalization offers limitless grounds for a critical investigation. The modern self, both as the revelation of the inner self and as a reflection of the collective, arises from the dialogical interplay Otherin the intersubject ..
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Subject Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Congresses
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses
Modernism (Literature) -- Congresses
Self (Philosophy) -- Congresses
Self (Philosophy) in literature -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Literature)
Philosophy, Modern
Self (Philosophy)
Self (Philosophy) in literature
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Tchir, Trevor
Webb, Dan
ISBN 9781443815925
1443815926