Michael Thompson: Twilight of the Self

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Cover: 9781503632455 | Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism

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"In this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defining feature of the project to build a modern democratic culture and polity. One of the central reasons for its demise in recent decades has been the emergence of what he calls the "cybernetic society," a cohesive totalization of the social logics of the institutional spheres of economy, culture and polity. These logics have been progressively defined by the imperatives of economic growth and technical-administrative management of labor and consumption, routinizing patterns of life, practices, and consciousness throughout the culture. Evolving out of the neoliberal transformation of economy and society since the 1980s, the cybernetic society has transformed the ways that the individual is articulated in contemporary society. Thompson examines the various pathologies of the self and consciousness that result from this form of socialization--such as hyper-reification, alienated moral cognition, false consciousness, and the withered ego--in new ways to demonstrate the extent of deformation of modern selfhood. Only with a more robust, more socially embedded concept of autonomy as critical agency can we begin to reconstruct the principles of democratic individuality and community"--

Über den Autor

Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Theory at William Paterson University. He is the author of The Politics of Inequality (2007), The Domestication of Critical Theory (2016), and, most recently, The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgment (2020).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Rise of Cybernetic Society: The Patterned World and the Fate of the Individual

2. Social Domination, Social Systems, and the Constitution of the Self

3. The Reification Problem and the Normative Entanglement Hypothesis

4. Alienation: From Autonomy to Moral Atrophy

5. Reconsidering False Consciousness: An Etiology of Defective Social Cognition

6. Cultivating Consent: Reification and the Web of Norms

7. The Withering of the Self and the Regression of the Ego

8. Autonomy as Critical Agency: Reconstructing the Democratic Self

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	348
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781503632455
ISBN-10:	1503632458
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thompson, Michael
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Maße:	226 x 152 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael Thompson
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.08.2022
Gewicht:	0,492 kg

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