Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism

by Michael Thompson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503632458
• ISBN13: 9781503632455
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 6.0"