We live under the beguiling illusion that our subjective lives are a personal matter. But our intimate feelings, desires and relationships have become the object of new forms of knowledge and the target of new forms of power. In the factory, the business organization, the military, the school and the home, therapists and counsellors gently coax us into new ways of thinking and ...(展开全部)

Governing the Soul is now widely recognized as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This governmentality perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generated much theoretical innovation and e...(展开全部)

Governing the Soul is now widely recognized as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This governmentality perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generated much theoretical innovation and e...(展开全部)

Though they worked in very different disciplines, Max Weber and Thomas Mann were engaged from early in their careers in a remarkably similar enterprise converging on questions of personal identity and national self-understanding, and built upon conceptions drawn from a common intellectual and national heritage. Harvey Goldman's ambitious new book is about a part of that enterpr...(展开全部)

Though they worked in very different disciplines, Max Weber and Thomas Mann were engaged from early in their careers in a remarkably similar enterprise converging on questions of personal identity and national self-understanding, and built upon conceptions drawn from a common intellectual and national heritage. Harvey Goldman's ambitious new book is about a part of that enterpr...(展开全部)

The Seat of the Soul is about the birth of a new species -- and the explosion of human perception past the five senses. It is about the values of the soul -- harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is about authentic power -- the alignment of the personality with the soul. It is about nonphysical guides and Teachers. The Seat of the Soul is written for the...(展开全部)

The Seat of the Soul is about the birth of a new species -- and the explosion of human perception past the five senses. It is about the values of the soul -- harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is about authentic power -- the alignment of the personality with the soul. It is about nonphysical guides and Teachers. The Seat of the Soul is written for the...(展开全部)

In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges 'the limits of classical analytic theory' and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a 'psychology of the self' as a theory in its own right - one that can stand beside the teachings of Freud and Jung. Using clinical data, Kohut explores issues such as the role of narc...(展开全部)

A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. The Soul of Brutes brings together four of Ginzburg’s recent scintillating essays and lectures that testify to the diversity of ...(展开全部)