Rewriting the Soul

Rewriting the Soul
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780691059082
ISBN-13 : 069105908X
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Book Synopsis Rewriting the Soul by : Ian Hacking

Download or read book Rewriting the Soul written by Ian Hacking and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Foucault once identified a politics that centers on the body and another that classifies and organizes the human population, Hacking has now provided a masterful description of the politics of memory: the scientizing of the soul and the wounds it can receive.


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