Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 How should one do the history of the self?
- 2 A critical history of psychology
- 3 Psychology as a social science
- 4 Expertise and the techne of psychology
- 5 Psychology as an individualizing technology
- 6 Social psychology as a science of democracy
- 7 Governing enterprising individuals
- 8 Assembling ourselves
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 How should one do the history of the self?
- 2 A critical history of psychology
- 3 Psychology as a social science
- 4 Expertise and the techne of psychology
- 5 Psychology as an individualizing technology
- 6 Social psychology as a science of democracy
- 7 Governing enterprising individuals
- 8 Assembling ourselves
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Inventing our SelvesPsychology, Power, and Personhood, pp. 199 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996