The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century

by Jerrold E. Seigel

Book Overview

What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. Jerrold Seigel combines theoretical and contextual approaches to explore the ways key figures have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of inner tensions and external pressures. Clarifying that recent post-modernist accounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521605547
• ISBN13: 9780521605540
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 724 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"