EAN: 9783030191931

FROM SELF TO SELFIE KARTONIERT (TB)

This edited collection charts the rise and the fall of the self  from its emergence as an
autonomous agent during the Enlightenment  to the modern-day selfie self  whose existence is
realised only through continuous external validation. Tracing the trajectory of selfhood in its
historical development - from the Reformation onwards - the authors introduce the classic
liberal account of the self  based on ideas of freedom and autonomy  that dominated
Enlightenment discourse. Subsequent chapters explore whether this traditional notion has been
eclipsed by new  more rigid  categories of identity  that alienate the self from itself and its
possibilities: what I am  it seems  has become more important than what I might make of myself.
These changing dynamics of selfhood - the transition From Self to Selfie - reveal not only the
peculiar ways in which selfhood is problematized in contemporary society  but equally the
tragic fragility of the selfie  in the absence of any social authority that could give it some
security.

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