Rose, Nikolas S.  | Cambridge

55,870원  | 19990101  | 9780521646079

INVENTING OUR SELVES argues that "psy" disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry have played a key role in changing the ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. The aim of this critical history is to help us think differe...

Rose,N.  | Cambridge

130,370원  | 19960701  | 9780521434140

Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other ‘psy’ disciplines have played a key role in ‘inventing our selves’, changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists, and a multitude of other authorities. These mutations are intrinsically linked to recent changes in ways of understanding and exercising political power, which have stressed the values of autonomy, personal responsibility, and choice. This critical history diagnoses and destabilises our contemporary ‘condition’ of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.