Perspectives on the Self : Reflexivity in the Humanities

Abstract

Modernity is the era of the self-made person: the moderns create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world – society – in their own image. That the social world is reflexive means that its dynamics become independent of its constructors. It is not made of individuals but of a non-subjective communication. The volume analyzes this double reflexivity from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing both on individual and social narratives.