The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

By Carl Trueman

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality

Carl Trueman traces the intellectual history behind today's expressive individualism and sexual revolution, drawing on thinkers from Rousseau to Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Wilhelm Reich to explain how the modern idea of the self came to dominate Western culture.

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