Overview
- Make sense of the transformations of key, historical models of selfhood, analysing and challenging the possibilities that these bring to the process of self-formation
- Opens up a much needed discussion on an area that has recently been largely neglected, but clearly requires renewed reflection given the nature of and the pace of current transformations of subjectivity in public and private life
- Brings together a mutlidisciplinary collection of high profile academics and social commentators
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This edited collection charts the rise and the fall of the self, from its emergence as an autonomous agent during the Enlightenment, to the modern-day selfie self, whose existence is realised only through continuous external validation.
Tracing the trajectory of selfhood in its historical development - from the Reformation onwards - the authors introduce the classic liberal account of the self, based on ideas of freedom and autonomy, that dominated Enlightenment discourse. Subsequent chapters explore whether this traditional notion has been eclipsed by new, more rigid, categories of identity, that alienate the self from itself and its possibilities: what I am, it seems, has become more important than what I might make of myself.
These changing dynamics of selfhood – the transition From Self to Selfie - reveal not only the peculiar ways in which selfhood is problematized in contemporary society, but equally thetragic fragility of the selfie, in the absence of any social authority that could give it some security.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Angus Kennedy is Convenor of the Battle of Ideas (boi) educational initiative, The Academy.
James Panton is Associate Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University, and Head of Politics at Magdalen College School in Oxford, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Self to Selfie
Book Subtitle: A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation
Editors: Angus Kennedy, James Panton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19194-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19193-1Published: 19 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19194-8Published: 14 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Self and Identity, Popular Social Sciences, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Sociology