Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. How should one do the history of 'the self'?; 3. A critical history of psychology; 4. Psychology as a 'social' science; 5. Expertise and the 'techne' of psychology; 6. Psychology as an 'individualizing' technology; 7. Social psychology as a science of democracy; 8. Governing enterprising individuals; 9. Assembling ourselves; 10. Notes; 11. Bibliography.

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Inventing Our Selves radically approaches the regime of the self and the values that animate it.

Reviews

"...Nikolas Rose's work continues to be one of the most exciting efforts to bring Foucalt's work to bear on sociological research and to produce an account of power in advanced liberal societies." Jonathan Simon, Contemporary Sociology "nventing Our Selves is one of the most valuable studies of the techniques of gevernment and self-government available in the English language." Angel J. Gordo-Lopez, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences