Inventing Our Selves Psychology, Power and Personhood |
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| Author:
| Rose, Nikolas |
| Contribution by:
| Ash, Mitchell G.
Woodward, William R. |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-64607-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.99 |
Book Description:
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Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self and the values that animate it. It argues that psychology and other "psy" disciplines have played a key role in "inventing our selves" by changing the ways in which human beings understand themselves. The aim of this critical history is to diagnose and destabilize our contemporary "condition" of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self and the values that animate it. It argues that psychology and other "psy" disciplines have played a key role in "inventing our selves" by changing the ways in which human beings understand themselves. The aim of this critical history is to diagnose and destabilize our contemporary "condition" of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.