The rise and triumph of the modern self : cultural amnesia, expressive individualism, and the road to sexual revolution
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
306.709/TRUEMAN,C

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Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 306.709/TRUEMAN,C Due: 2/15/2026

Details

PUBLISHED
Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, 2020
DESCRIPTION

425 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781433556333, 1433556332, 9781433556333
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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"--