Selfhood and the Seventeenth Century
“For the historian of philosophy or political thought … [m]ethodologically, there is a reluctance to employ the idea of the self as a tool to unlock the structure either of texts, or of social practices, which do not in themselves use such a concept. To examine how languages and discourses themselves were employed and adapted, to make sense of and influence the world, should be the goal of the intellectual historian.”
Those of you who had a good go at me about the self in seventeenth-century literature last week might want to take a look at this:
Geoff Baldwin, ‘Individual and Self in the Late Renaissance’, The Historical Journal 44.2 (2001), pp. 341-364
Online access available here
It provides a good over-view of the different ways scholars in history, political theory and literary studies have explored the idea of the ‘individual’ and the ‘self’ during the Renaissance.
Those of you who weren’t present to see me getting slowly but surely backed into a corner might want to look at this anyway and we can talk about it next week…
Alice Eardley
10 Nov 2009 17:30
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Alex
Thanks!
This link might work better for some people
(http://www.jstor.org/stable/3133611)
10 Nov 2009, 19:29
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