The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution.

CONTENTS:

Foreword, by Rod Dreher.

Part 1. — ARCHITECTURE OF THE REVOLUTION.
1. Reimagining the Self.
2. Reimagining Our Culture.

Part 2 — FOUNDATIONS OF THE REVOLUTION.
3. The Other Genevan.
Jean-Jacque Rousseau and the Foundations of Modern Selfhood.

4. Unacknowledged Legislators.
Wordsworth, Shelley, and Blake

5. The Emergence of Plastic People.
Nietzsche, Marx, and Darwin

Epilogue to Part 2
Reflections on the Foundations of the Revolution.

Part 3 — SEXUALIZATION OF THE REVOLUTION.
6. Sigmund Freud, Civilization, and Sex.

7. The New Left and the Politicization of Sex.

Epilogue to Part 3.
Reflections on the Sexualization of the Revolution.

Part 4 — TRIUMPHS OF THE REVOLUTION.
8. The Triumph of the Erotic.

9. The Triumph of the Therapeutic.

10. The Triumph of the T.

Epilogue to Part 4.
Reflections on the Triumphs of the Revolution.

Concluding Unscientific Prologue.