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Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.
In Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki, Avram Alpert contends that scholars have yet to fully grasp the constitutive force of global connections in the making of modern selfhood. Alpert argues that canonical moments of self-making from around the world share a surprising origin in the colonial anthropology of Europeans in the Americas. While most intellectual histories of modernity begin with the Cartesian inward turn, Alpert shows how this turn itself was an evasion of the impact of the colonial encounter. He charts a counter-history of the modern self, tracing lines of influence that stretch from Michel de Montaigne's encounter with the Tupi through the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau into German Idealism, American Transcendentalism, postcolonial critique, and modern Zen. Alpert considers an unusually wide range of thinkers, including Kant, Hegel, Fanon, Emerson, Du Bois, Senghor, and Suzuki. This book not only breaks with disciplinary conventions about period and geography but also argues that these conventions obscure our ability to understand the modern condition.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Montaigne and the Other History of Modernity
2. Foundations of Universalist Global Thought: Rousseau and Kant
3. Aesthetic Visions of the Global Self: Schiller and Senghor
4. Dialectics and Its Discontents: Hegel, Marx, Fanon
5. Radical Pluralism I: Emerson
6. Radical Pluralism II: Du Bois
7. Emptying the Global Self: Suzuki
Coda: Being-Toward-Bequeathment
Notes
Works Cited
Index
