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SELF  \nWhat is the self?This question has preoccupied people in many timesand places,but nowhere more than in the modern West,where it hasspawned debates that still resound today.Jerrold Seigel here providesan original and penetrating narrative of how major Western Euro-pean thinkers and writers have confronted the self since the time ofDescartes,Leibniz,and Locke.From an approach that is at once theo-retical and contextual,he examines the way figures in Britain,France,and Germany have understood whether and how far individuals canachieve coherence and consistency in the face of the inner tensionsand external pressures that threaten to divide or overwhelm them.Hemakes clear that recent \"post-modernist\"accounts of the self belongfirmly to the tradition of Western thinking they have sought to super-sede,and provides an open-ended and persuasive alternative to claimsthat the modern self is typically egocentric or disengaged.  \nJERROLD SEIGEL is William R.Kenan,Jr.,Professor of Historyat New York University.His previous books include Bohemian Paris:Culture,Politics and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life,I830-1930(I986)and The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp:Desire,Liberation and theSelfin Modern Culture(1995).  \nTHE IDEA OF THE SELF  \nThought and Experience in Western Europe sincethe Seventeenth Century  \nJERROLD SEIGEL  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESSCambridge,New York,Melbourne,Madrid,Cape Town,Singapore,Sao Paulo  \nCambridge University PressThe Edinburgh Building,Cambridge CB22RU,UK  \nPublished in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press,New York  \nwww.cambridge.orgInformation on this title:www.cambridge.org/9780521844170  \n◎Jerrold Seigel 2005  \nThis book is in copyright.Subject to statutory exceptionand to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreementsno reproduction of any part may take place withoutthe written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 2005  \nPrinted in the United Kingdom at the Universitry Press,Cambridge  \nA catalogue record for this book is atailable from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication dataSeigel,Jerrold E.  \nThe idea of the self:thought and experience in Western Europe sincethe seventeenth century /Jerrold Seigel.  \np.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN O 521844177-ISBN O 521605547(pb.)  \n1.Self-History.1.Title.BF697.S452004I26.09-dc222004049664  \nISBN-I3978-0-52I-84417-8 hardback  \nISBN-100-521-84417-7 hardback  \nISBN-13978--521-60554-0 paperback  \nISBN-10 O-52I-60554-7 paperback  \nContents  \nAcknowledgmentspage vii  \nPART I INTRODUCTORY  \nI Dimensions and contexts ofselfhood  \n3  \n2 Between ancients and moderns  \n45  \nPART II BRITISH MODERNITY  \n3 Personal identity and modern selfhood:Locke  \n87  \n4 Self-centeredness and sociability:Mandeville and HumeIII  \n5 Adam Smith and modern self-fashioning  \nI39  \nPART III sOCIETY AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE:FRANCE FROMOLD REGIME TO RESTORATION  \n6 Sensationalism,reflection,and inner freedom:Condillacand DiderotI7I  \n7 Wholeness,withdrawal,and self-revelation:Rousseau  \n2IO  \n8 Reflectivity,sense-experience,and the perils of social life:Maine de Biran and Constant248  \nPART IV THE WORLD AND THE SELF IN GERMAN IDEALISM  \n9 Autonomy,limitation,and the purposiveness of nature:Kant295  \nContents  \nvi  \nIOHomology and Bildung:Herder,Humboldt,and Goethe  \n332  \nI The ego and the world:Fichte,Novalis,and Schelling  \n361  \nI2 Universal selfhood:Hegel  \n39I  \nPART V MODERN VISIONS AND ILLUSIONS  \nDejection,insight,and self-making:Coleridge and Mill427  \nI3  \nI4From cultivated subjectivity to the culte du moi:polarities  \nofself-formation in nineteenth-century France469  \nI5 Society and selfhood reconciled:Janet,Fouillé,and Bergson  \n508  \nI6 Will,reflection,and self-overcoming:Schopenhauer andNietzsche537 ","cbCaikaG5nFDLf7u","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikaG5nFDLf7u","pdf",43594082,740,"English","# Contents\n## Acknowledgments\n## PART I INTRODUCTORY\n## PART II BRITISH MODERNITY\n## PART III SOCIETY AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE: FRANCE FROM OLD REGIME TO RESTORATION\n## PART IV THE WORLD AND THE SELF IN GERMAN IDEALISM\n## PART V MODERN VISIONS AND ILLUSIONS\n## Notes\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What central question does the book address?\",\"answer\":\"It asks what the self is and how modern Western debates about the self were formed.\"},{\"question\":\"Which regions and thinkers does the book focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It examines thinkers and writers in Britain, France, and Germany, starting with figures such as Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke and extending through major intellectual traditions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book relate to post-modernist accounts of the self?\",\"answer\":\"It contends that recent post-modernist accounts belong to the Western tradition they aim to replace, and it proposes an alternative explanation for modern selfhood.\"}]","The Idea of the Self - 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