The future of the self : inventing the postmodern person / Walter Truett Anderson.
The future of the self : inventing the postmodern person / Walter Truett Anderson.
The future of the self : inventing the postmodern person / Walter Truett Anderson.
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New York : J.P. Tarcher, c1997.
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N126/38
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 287 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Everybody's Identity Crisis -- 1. A Brief History of the Self -- 2. Twilight of the Modern Self -- 3. From Modern Self to Postmodern Selves -- 4. The Selves and Stories of Women -- 5. The Multitudinous Brain -- 6. The Shifting Boundaries of the Body -- 7. When People Are Not Themselves...
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Publisher
New York : J.P. Tarcher, c1997.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Walter Truett Anderson considers ideas about the self that have been held by poets and philosophers in the past, and that are held by people in other societies today, and then takes us on a tour of challenges to the modern Western concept of self that are now emerging from various fields of contemporary thought and action - cognitive science, medic...
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The future of the self : inventing the postmodern person / Walter Truett Anderson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-277) and index.
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c1997.
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N126/38
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74VMQlW6ZDwd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQlW6ZDwd
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ISBN
0874778816 (alk. paper)
9780874778816 (alk. paper)
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126
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991000636059702626
