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By Jerrold Seigel

ISBN-10: 0521605547

ISBN-13: 9780521605540

ISBN-10: 0521844177

ISBN-13: 9780521844178

what's the self? The query has preoccupied humans in lots of occasions and areas, yet nowhere greater than within the smooth West, the place it has spawned debates that also resound this day. during this 2005 publication, Jerrold Seigel offers an unique and penetrating narrative of ways significant Western ecu thinkers and writers have faced the self because the time of Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. From an process that's instantaneously theoretical and contextual, he examines the way in which figures in Britain, France, and Germany have understood even if and the way a long way members can in achieving coherence and consistency within the face of the interior tensions and exterior pressures that threaten to divide or weigh down them. He makes transparent that contemporary 'postmodernist' debts of the self belong firmly to the culture of Western pondering they've got sought to supersede, and offers an open-ended and persuasive substitute to claims that the fashionable self is sometimes selfish or disengaged.

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