On Willing Selves

Neoliberal Politics and the Challenge of Neuroscience

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

AvS. Maasen,B. Sutter,Sabine Maasen,Barbara Sutter

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The neurosciences propose that the concept of will is scientifically untenable - it is our brain rather than our 'self' that controls our choices. Yet we seem to be confronted with increasing free choice in all areas of life. Using up-to-date empirical research in the social sciences and philosophy, this volume addresses the seeming contradiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-08-30
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt213 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor234
Upplaga2007
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230013438

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SABINE MAASEN is Professor for Science Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Recent research interests include the social construction of sexual selves, the dynamics of knowledge, particularly as regards the notion of consciousness, as well as the dynamics of knowledge between different scientific and nonscientific discourses. Pertinent publications are Genealogie der Unmoral. Zur Therapeutisierung sexueller Selbste (Genealogy of the Immoral - Therapeutic Constructions of Sexual Selves, 1998), Metaphors and the Dynamics of Knowledge (with P. Weingart, 2000),

Introduction; S.Maasen & B. Sutter PART I: SELF - PAST AND PRESENT Self-Help: The Making of Neosocial Selves in Neoliberal Society; S.Maasen, B.Sutter & S.Duttweiler Technologies of the Will and their Christian Roots; I>A.Hahn & M.Schorch Governing By Will; S.Maasen , B.Sutter & S.Duttweiler PART II: SELF AND (SOCIO-)SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE Governing the Will in a Neurochemical Age; N.Rose The Person as an Effect of Communication; A.Nassehi PART III: SELF AND POLITICS Creating Citizen-Consumers? Public Service Reform and (Un)Willing Selves; J.Clarke, J. Newman & L.Westmarland Neopolitics: Voluntary Action in the Neoconservative Regime; B.Cruikshank 'Craving' Research: Smart Drugs and the Elusiveness of Desire; M.Valverde PART IV: SELF AND MORALITY From Voluntary to Relational Action: Responsibility and Value in a Global Context; K.J.Gergen The Role of the Self-Model for Self-Determination; T.Vierkant