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Individualism - The Cultural Logic of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Individualism - The Cultural Logic of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of
the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition.
Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of
western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly
from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then
individualism in the twentieth century. These essays boldly
challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured
teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkably
tenacious narrative on "the rise of the individual." Some essays
question the correlation of realist characterization to the
eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the
continuing political relevance of selfhood in modernist fiction
over and against postmodern nihilism. Yet others move to the
foreground underappreciated topics, such as the role of courtly
cultures in the development of individualism. Taken together, the
essays provocatively revise and enrich our understanding of
individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself.
Authors especially considered include Locke, Defoe, Freud, and
Adorno. The essays in this volume first began as papers presented
at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association
held at Princeton University. Among the contributors are Nancy
Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise, David Jenemann, Lucy
McNeece, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein.
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