Simulated selves : the undoing of personal identity in the modern world / Andrew Spira
- Author
- Spira, Andrew
- Published
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- Paperback edition.
- Physical Description
- vii, 349 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Contents
- The narrated self: time and the dramatisation of historical agency -- The publication of the self: the sublimation of personal identity in publicity and art appreciation -- The disintegration of the self: the origins of abstraction and the de-objectification of the world -- The democratisation of the self: the integration of creative endeavour into the fabric of daily life and the death of art -- The trans-personalisation of the self: the material culture of communication and the communalisation of identity -- The psychological self: the pathology of art and cinematographic modes of self-remembering -- The linguistic self: the de-verberation of the self and the end of meaning.
- Summary
- "The notion of a personal self took centuries to evolve, reaching the pinnacle of autonomy with Descartes' 'I think, therefore I am' in the seventeenth century. This 'personalisation' of identity thrived for another hundred years before it began to be questioned, subject to the emergence of broader, more inclusive forms of agency. In this expansive study, Andrew Spina addresses the 'constructed' notion of personal identity in the West and how it has been eclipsed by the development of new technological, social, art historical and psychological infrastructures over the last two centuries."--Back cover.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1350286532
9781350286535
9781350298163 (pbk.)
1350298166 (pbk.)
9781350091085 epdf
9781350091108 ebook - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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