Rewriting the Self

Roy Porter [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0415142806 / ISBN 13: 9780415142809

Published by Routledge, 1996

About this Item

[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Contains Philip Morgan's personal notes on a couple of pages. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rewriting the Self
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415142806
• ISBN 13: 9780415142809
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 20 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

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 offers a challenge to the received version of the 'ascent of western man'. Lively and controversial, the book broaches big questions in an accessible way.
Rewriting the Self arises from a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The contributors include prominent academics from a range of disciplines.

About the Author

Roy Porter