The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject
Miller, T. (1993) The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject. John Hopkins University Press.
Abstract
"This Fouauldian analysis of political identity- formation, social ethics, and cultural policy in advanced capitalist societies is a timely addition to democratic theory. Miller contrasts the ethic of 'incompleteness' which produces an accelerated and self-policing citizens to the 'autoinvention' exemplified by (some) new social movements and hinted at Foucault's later works. The middle, substantive chapters are the strongest; Miller marshalls a wealth of original data on the deep schism between selfless citizen and self-serving customer underlying much Australian and Brittish Public Policy; the politics of incivility (again, in Australia); and the issue of 'cultural imperialism' under the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade. These imaginative discussion denaturalize such classic concepts as national identity, state sovreignty, individual autonomy, self-discovery, and civic virtue."
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Item Type: | Book |
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Publisher: | John Hopkins University Press |
Copyright: | © 2016 Johns Hopkins University Press |
Publisher's Website: | https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/well-tempe... |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/40678 |
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