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Psychological Expertise and the Care of the Self

Psychological Expertise and the Care of the Self

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Product Code:
2355-01
ISBN
978-619-01-0479-7
SKU
16.0242
Year
25-07-2019
Pages
224
Size
140/215 mm
Weight
0.28 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Culturology, Sociology, Contemporary Philosophy

Simeon Kyurkchiev

Simeon Kyurkchiev

Simeon Kyurkchiev is a sociologist, assistant professor in the Social Sciences Department, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy. His main interests are in sociological diagnostics of contemporaneity, focused on the problems of mental health and neuroses, psychological expertise and ontology of the subject.

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This book is an attempt to better understand our contemporary and immanently contradictory modes of freedom in which our “care of the self” is often entangled with different regimes of (self)government. This controversial situation, the ever-moving line between freedom and (self)government, are analyzed in the context of what Nikolas Rose calls “psy” disciplines - the ever-growing but disperse field of practices and techniques which aim to master and softly regulate the individual psyche.

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