The rise and triumph of the modern self: cultural amnesia, expressive individualism, and the road to sexual revolution

Introduction

Architecture of the revolution. Reimagining the self ; Reimagining our culture

Foundations of the revolution: The other Genevan: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the foundations of modern selfhood ; Unacknowledged legislators: Wordsworth, Shelley, and Blake ; The emergence of plastic people: Nietzsche, Marx, and Darwin ; Epilogue to part 2: Reflections on the foundations of the revolution

Sexualization of the revolution. Sigmund Freud, civilization, and sex ; The new left and the politicization of sex ; Epilogue to part 3: Reflections on the sexualization of the revolution

Triumphs of the revolution. The triumph of the erotic ; The triumph of the therapeutic ; The triumph of the T ; Epilogue to part 4: Reflections on the triumphs of the revolution

Concluding unscientific prologue.