On Willing Selves: Neoliberal Politics and the Challenge of NeuroscienceSabine Maasen, B. Sutter Palgrave Macmillan, 30 août 2007 - 234 pages Currently, the neurosciences challenge the concept of will to be scientifically untenable, specifying that it is our brain rather than our "self" that decides what we want to do. At the same time, we seem to be confronted with increasing possibilities and necessities of free choice in all areas of social life. Based on up-to-date (empirical) research in the social sciences and philosophy, the authors convened in this book address this seeming contradiction: By differentiating the physical, the psychic, and the social realm, the neuroscientific findings can be acknowledged within a comprehensive framework of selves in neoliberal societies. |
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Self Past and Present | 21 |
Technologies of the Will and Their Christian Roots | 55 |
Self and SocioScientific Knowledge | 77 |
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