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