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Twilight of the Self
The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism
Michael Thompson



Twilight of the Self
The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism
Michael Thompson

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Contents
Introduction

Contents
Introduction
1 The Rise of Cybernetic Society: The Patterned World and the Fate of the Individual
2 Social Domination, Social Systems, and the Constitution of the Self
3 The Reification Problem and the Normative Entanglement Hypothesis
4 Alienation: From Autonomy to Moral Atrophy
5 Reconsidering False Consciousness: An Etiology of Defective Social Cognition
6 Cultivating Consent: Reification and the Web of Norms
7 The Withering of the Self and the Regression of the Ego
8 Autonomy as Critical Agency: Reconstructing the Democratic Self