- Hardcover: 1 pages
- Publisher: Tarcher (Mar 11 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0874778816
- ISBN-13: 978-0874778816
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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[T]here's boldness and good sense in Anderson's argument that sustainable societies of the future will need to acknowledge how much of our world is of our own making and always has been--societies inhabited by ever-shifting, ever-expanding selves that aren't afraid of their own complexity. -- The San Francisco Chronicle, Keith Thompson
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"Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. Leave it to the bureaucrats to see our papers are in order" -Michel Foucault Nothing in our world seems more obvious, real, and commonsensical than the idea of the self. Self lies at the heart of much of what we do and what we think about, including politics, religion, psychology, economics, psychotherapy, relationships, nationality, gender, and race. But in the fast-changing contemporary world, the traditional concept of the bounded, internal, stable self is under siege and may well be headed for extinction sooner than any of us suspects. Walter Truett Anderson considers different ideas about the self that have been held by people in the past. He visits disciplines and arenas within which modern ideas of identity are being questioned and other ways of experiencing life are being invented - cognitive science, medicine, cyberspace, and political and economic globalization. What emerges is an opportunity for a new vision of who and what we are. Essential to our understanding of the emerging postmodern era, Future of the Self will help readers explore the possibilities of life in a changed and changing world.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Starting Point For Further Inquiry,
By A Customer
This review is from: Future Of The Self (Hardcover)
As a novice to the world of post-modern philosophy, I found this book helpful in starting the inquiry into the terms, ideas, and metaphors used to explain the post-modern point of view. While obviously not an academic rendering, Anderson's style of writing is informative and journalistic. He may not be accurate in all that he reports, but his book has motivated me seek out more information.
2.0 out of 5 stars
A book that practices what it preaches,
By A Customer
This review is from: Future Of The Self (Hardcover)
Anderson describes a world in which the self is endangered, nearing extinction. Though his style is charming, funny, appealing to the masses, his ideas, as innovative as they seem, really have too many loopholes to be accepted in the academic world. It is a glitzy, superficial book making a circular argument about the "liberation" of the human being from the concept of self. The idea is good, but each chapter really needs a lot more explaining to really get to the whys and hows of things, if he's really serious about making a social statement. Otherwise, this book is as souless as the society he describes.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Little scientific rigor in Anderson's analysis of the self,
By A Customer
This review is from: Future Of The Self (Hardcover)
Anderson basis his book on an argument that has little to do with analysis and much to do with superficially convincing the reader to accept his position as true. It makes me so upset when writers attempt to manipulate the reader, as if we are stupid and cannot distinguish between real evidence and the general, abstract references he has presented. I hope that this book will not be taken seriously by the readers, and that someday someone will explicate these theories in a REAL analysis.
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