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On Willing Selves

Neoliberal Politics and the Challenge of Neuroscience

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Editors:
  1. Sabine Maasen

    1. University of Basel, Switzerland

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  2. Barbara Sutter

    1. University of Basel, Switzerland

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Reviving a Sociology of Willing Selves

    1. Introduction: Reviving a Sociology of Willing Selves

      • Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter
      Pages 1-19

  3. Self — Past and Present

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-24
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    2. Self-Help: The Making of Neosocial Selves in Neoliberal Society

      • Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter, Stefanie Duttweiler
      Pages 25-52

    3. Technologies of the Will and Their Christian Roots

      • Alois Hahn, Marén Schorch
      Pages 53-76

  4. Self and (Socio-)Scientific

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-80
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    2. Governing the Will in a Neurochemical Age

      • Nikolas Rose
      Pages 81-99

    3. The Person as an Effect of Communication

      • Armin Nassehi
      Pages 100-120

  5. Self and Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-124
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    2. Creating Citizen-Consumers? Public Service Reform and (Un)Willing Selves

      • John Clarke, Janet Newman, Louise Westmarland
      Pages 125-145

    3. Neopolitics: Voluntary Action in the New Regime

      • Barbara Cruikshank
      Pages 146-166

    4. ‘Craving’ Research: Smart Drugs and the Elusiveness of Desire

      • Mariana Valverde
      Pages 167-187

  6. Self and Morality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-192
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    2. From Voluntary to Relational Action: Responsibility in Question

      • Kenneth J Gergen
      Pages 193-208

    3. The Role of the Self-Model for Self-Determination

      • Tillmann Vierkant
      Pages 209-226

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 227-234
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About this book

The neurosciences propose that the concept of will is scientifically untenable - it is our brain rather than our 'self' that controls our choices. Yet we seem to be confronted with increasing free choice in all areas of life. Using up-to-date empirical research in the social sciences and philosophy, this volume addresses the seeming contradiction.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Basel, Switzerland

    Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter

About the editors

JOHN CLARKE Professor of Social Policy, Open University, UK BARBARA CRUIKSHANK Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, the University of Massachusetts, USA STEFANIE DUTTWEILER Research Assistant, the University of Basel, Switzerland KENNETH J. GERGEN Mustin Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College, USA ALOIS HAHN Professor of Sociology, Trier University, Germany AMIN NASSEHI Professor of Sociology, University of Munich, Germany JANET NEWMAN Professor of Social Policy, The Open University, UK NIKOLAS ROSE Professor of Sociology, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK MAREN SCHORCH Research Assistant, the Department of Sociology, the University of Trier, Germany MARIANA VALVERDE Professor of Criminology, the University of Toronto, Canada TILLMAN VIERKANT Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Edinburgh, UK LOUISE WESTMARLAND Lecturer in Criminology, The Open University, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On Willing Selves

  • Book Subtitle: Neoliberal Politics and the Challenge of Neuroscience

  • Editors: Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592087

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-01343-8Published: 30 August 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28472-6Published: 01 January 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59208-7Published: 30 August 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 234

  • Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Philosophy of Mind

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