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Edited by Angus Kennedy / James Panton F R O M S E L F T O S E L F I E A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation From Self to Selfie Angus Kennedy • James Panton Editors From Self to Selfie A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation Editors Angus Kennedy James Panton West Sussex, UK Magdalen College School Oxford, UK ISBN 978-3-030-19193-1 ISBN 978-3-030-19194-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19194-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and trans- mission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © yipengge / iStock / Getty Images Plus This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland For Maddy and Claudia & Mira and Alexandra Personality implies that as this person: I am completely determined on every side and so finite, yet nonetheless I am simply and solely self-relation, and therefore in finitude I know myself as something infinite,—universal, and free. —Hegel, Philosophy of Right vii Acknowledgements This book is a collection of essays based on lectures delivered at the Academy of Ideas Academy in 2017. All the chapters in this book were originally delivered as a lecture or talk in some form. We have edited them into prose, but inevitably many of them retain a more informal and colloquial tone than might be expected in a publication intended exclu- sively for an academic audience. We hope that will make the book—in its broad brush, if not cursory, treatment of a hugely complex and difficult subject—open to a wider readership, but we do seek to excuse neither the limitations that result nor the errors our editing will have introduced. We would like to thank all the contributors to this collection—many of whom are long-term supporters of the Academy—for agreeing to include their lectures and for their commitment of time and effort in making them ready for publication. Frank Furedi and Claire Fox deserve special mention for their ongoing inspiration and support. In addition, we owe a debt to all those regulars at the Academy over the last eight years without whose support, commitment, and intellectual input, these ideas would not have developed in the way and at the pace they have. We are very grateful to Sharla Plant at Palgrave Macmillan for enter- taining the original idea and taking the project on board. And to Poppy Hull and all the team there for making it a reality. ix x Acknowledgements Gae Kennedy helped with transcribing two of the original lectures. We would both like to thank Gae and Sara Beck for all their support in too many ways than we have space to list here. West Sussex, 2019 A.E.K. Oxford, 2019 J.K.P. Contents Part I 1 1 Introduction: Classical and Contemporary Forms of Alienation 3 James Panton 2 The Emergence of the Self in History 13 Frank Furedi 3 In Praise of Selfish Individualism 27 Jamie Whyte 4 Self-Enlightenment 45 Angus Kennedy 5 ‘Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Wellbeing.’ J.S. Mill and the Nineteenth-Century Liberal Individual 69 James Panton xi xii Contents 6 The Rise and Fall of the Rule of Law 85 Jon Holbrook Part II 103 7 Autonomy and the Birth of Authenticity 105 Tim Black 8 Self, Society, Alienation: From Marx to Identity Politics 129 Josie Appleton 9 Anti-humanism and the Deconstruction of the Liberal Subject 147 James Heartfield 10 Narcissism and Identity 167 Claire Fox 11 New Forms of Alienation 193 Frank Furedi 12 Conclusion: The Self and Its Prospects 207 Angus Kennedy Index 225
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