The future of the self : inventing the postmodern person / Walter Truett Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Walt, 1933-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy)--Controversial literature.

Self (Philosophy).

Controversial literature.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., [1997]

Summary:

Nothing in our world seems more obvious, real, and commonsensical than the idea of self. This book is a fascinating examination of our assumptions about the deceptively simple concept of "self", of the many ways those assumptions are now being challenged, and of the possible new ways of being that may arise in their place.

Contents:

Introduction: Everybody's Identity Crisis

Part 1. Constructing and Deconstructing the Modern Self. A brief history of the self; Twilight of the modern self; From modern self to postmodern selves; The selves and stories of women

Part 2. Visions of the Larger Person. The multitudinous brain; The shifting boundaries of the body; When people are not themselves; The chemical connection

Part 3. Toward a Post-Identity Society. The self's adventures in cyberspace; Post-identity ethics; The new economics of identity; The global politics of not being had

Part 4. Maps of an Undiscovered Land. Liberation from the self: where East meets West; Futures of the self.

Notes:

"Book design by Lee Fukui."

Dust jacket has different sub-title: Exploring the Post-Identity Society.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0874778816

OCLC:

36858336