The Self in Social Theory: A Psychoanalytic Account of Its Construction in Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls, and Rousseau

By C. Fred Alford and Professor C. Fred Alford

Book Overview

The self is a topic that crosses a great many disciplinary boundaries; concepts of the self are central to political science, psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, and classical studies. In this book, C.Fred Alford sets forth a psychoanalytic account of the self and applies it to texts by Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rawis, and Rouseau in order to draw out their implicit, often inchoate, assumptions about the self.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300049226
• ISBN13: 9780300049220
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"