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Secret Selves : A History of Our Inner Space by Stephen Prickett; Bloomsbury Publishing is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Secret Selves : A History of Our Inner Space about?
"Our secret, inner, sense of self ? what we feel makes us distinctively 'us' ? seems a natural and permanent part of being human, yet in fact it is surprisingly new. Over the last 2,000 years we have increasingly felt old sources of identity, such as family, tribe, or social status, as intensely personal, even unique to us. Confessional religious writings and novels, from Augustine to Jane Austen, or diaries even of 20th-century holocaust victims, took the same path to self-discovery and explora
Who reads Secret Selves : A History of Our Inner Space?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Prickett; Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501372490
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Philosophy, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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