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Book SynopsisInventing Our Selves analyses our current regime of the 'self' and the values that animate it; it discusses how psychology and other 'psy' disciplines have affected the ways in which people understand themselves, and aims to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.
Trade Review'The scope and isnights of what Rose has to say about what it is to become, and be, a human alone suffice to ensure the very great importance of this volume.' Paul Heelas, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. How should one do the history of 'the self'?; 3. A critical history of psychology; 4. Psychology as a 'social' science; 5. Expertise and the 'techne' of psychology; 6. Psychology as an 'individualizing' technology; 7. Social psychology as a science of democracy; 8. Governing enterprising individuals; 9. Assembling ourselves; 10. Notes; 11. Bibliography.
