Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present

by Roy Porter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415142806
• ISBN13: 9780415142809
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"