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The rise and triumph of the modern self : cultural amnesia, expressive individualism, and the road to sexual revolution  Cover Image Book Book

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.

Trueman, Carl R., (author.). Dreher, Rod, (writer of foreword.).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9781433556333
  • ISBN: 1433556332
  • Physical Description: 425 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Sexual freedom > History.
Sex.
Self.
Civilization, Modern.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lawrence County Federated Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at New Castle Public Library.

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New Castle Public Library 306.709 Trueman (Text) 31902005419452 NWCM Non-Fiction Available -


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