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Introduction: Trivialities Are Not Trivial |
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The trivial and the existential |
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A trivial (and existential) example |
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The duality of the self in philosophy |
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The duality of the self in psychology |
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The self in everyday life |
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The self in the consumer age |
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PART ONE THE SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE |
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1. The Morning Reconstruction of the Self |
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The toothpaste of immortality |
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2. The Reconstruction of the World |
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3. The Self in the Public Space |
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The private and the public self |
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Personal music players and cell phones |
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4. The Limits and Freedom of Self-Construction |
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The social construction of the self |
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Self-construction and freedom |
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6. The Self and the Articulation of Time |
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PART TWO THE SELF IN THE CONSUMER AGE |
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8. The Self in a Changing World |
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Possible and impossible futures |
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The self in various worlds |
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9. "Proletarian Renaissance" |
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The modern—postmodern dilemma |
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Renaissance and Reformation |
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Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Neo-Platonism |
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10. The Self in a Syncretic Age |
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The emergence and disappearance of the self |
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11. The Self and the Intensity of Life |
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The loss of transcendence |
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12. The Self in Boundary Situations |
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Death in the consumer civilization |
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The martyrdom of the monster with a golden heart |
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The cult of the human personality |
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Mythology in the superlative |
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The glory and the fall of gods |
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14. The Self in a Reenchanted World |
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The reenchantment of the world |
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Crisis? Transition? Revival? |
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Epilogue |
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Care for the self: past and present |
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"Highbrow" and "lowbrow" selves |
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Notes |
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References |
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