LEADER 03624nam 22006374a 450 001 9910455150803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02955-0 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674029552 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805508 035 $a(OCoLC)449954622 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10328813 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000204515 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174232 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204515 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10176389 035 $a(PQKB)10849941 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300635 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300635 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328813 035 $a(OCoLC)923112512 035 $a(DE-B1597)589937 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674029552 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805508 100 $a20040218d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe modern self in the labyrinth$b[electronic resource] $epolitics and the entrapment imagination /$fEyal Chowers 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (261 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-01330-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Modernity: Hyper-Order and Doubleness -- $t2 Proto-Entrapment Theories -- $t3 Max Weber: Between Homo-Hermeneut and the Lebende Maschine -- $t4 Freud and the Castration of the Modern -- $t5 Michel Foucault: From the Prison-House of Language to the Silence of the Panopticon -- $tConclusion -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book explores the distinct historical-political imagination of the self in the twentieth century and advances two arguments. First, it suggests that we should read the history of modern political philosophy afresh in light of a theme that emerges in the late eighteenth century: the rift between self and social institutions. Second, it argues that this rift was reformulated in the twentieth century in a manner that contrasts with the optimism of nineteenth-century thinkers regarding its resolution. It proposes a new political imagination of the twentieth century found in the works of Weber, Freud, and Foucault, and characterizes it as one of "entrapment." Eyal Chowers shows how thinkers working within diverse theoretical frameworks and fields nevertheless converge in depicting a self that has lost its capacity to control or transform social institutions. He argues that Weber, Freud, and Foucault helped shape the distinctive thought and culture of the past century by portraying a dehumanized and distorted self marked by sameness. This new political imagination proposes coping with modernity through the recovery, integration, and assertion of the self, rather than by mastering and refashioning collective institutions. 606 $aAlienation (Social psychology) 606 $aSelf 606 $aSocial institutions$xPsychological aspects 606 $aCivilization, Modern$xPsychological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAlienation (Social psychology) 615 0$aSelf. 615 0$aSocial institutions$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a302.5/44 700 $aChowers$b Eyal$0479781 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455150803321 996 $aThe modern self in the labyrinth$92264240 997 $aUNINA