Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present

Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present

by Roy Porter (Editor)

Synopsis

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.
Rewriting the Self offers a challenge to the received version of the 'ascent of western man'. Lively and controversial, the book broaches big questions in an accessible way.
Rewriting the Self arises from a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The contributors include prominent academics from a range of disciplines.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05 Dec 1996

ISBN 10: 0415142806
ISBN 13: 9780415142809

Media Reviews
The collection is full of provocative insights and is capped with two outstanding pieces....
- Punch, 1/10/97
Roy Porter's stellar volume puts together a wide range of selves in its search for the self. A host of distinguished authors question the construction of the very idea of the self in illuminating detail. Each chapter provides another turning to the question until the reader starts to imagine him/herself as a fragmented series of selves. Readers beware! There are more selves to your self than meets the eye!.
-Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago
Rewriting the Self challenges some of our most deeply held myths about the individual in the West...Roy Porter has assembled an all-star cast of historians and critics here, and his introduction to Rewriting the Self moves us easily through the shoals of an important intellectual journey.
-Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto