Bibliograph

The rise and triumph of the modern self, cultural amnesia, expressive individualism, and the road to sexual revolution, Carl R. Trueman ; foreword by Rod Dreher

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Label

The rise and triumph of the modern self, cultural amnesia, expressive individualism, and the road to sexual revolution, Carl R. Trueman ; foreword by Rod Dreher

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The rise and triumph of the modern self

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1135609610

Responsibility statement

Carl R. Trueman ; foreword by Rod Dreher

Sub title

cultural amnesia, expressive individualism, and the road to sexual revolution

Summary

"This Book sets the sexual revolution and its many ramifications within the broader context of changes in the West's understanding of selfhood"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Architecture of the revolution: Reimagining the self -- Reimagining our culture -- Foundations of the revolution: The other Genevan: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the foundations of modern selfhood -- Unacknowledged legislators: Wordsworth, Shelley, and Blake -- The emergence of plastic people: Nietzsche, Marx, and Darwin -- Epilogue to part 2: Reflections on the foundations of the revolution -- Sexualization of the revolution: Sigmund Freud, civilization, and sex -- The new left and the politicization of sex -- Epilogue to part 3: Reflections on the sexualization of the revolution -- Triumphs of the revolution: The triumph of the erotic -- The triumph of the therapeutic -- The triumph of the T -- Epilogue to part 4: Reflections on the triumphs of the revolution -- Concluding unscientific prologue

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