Front matter
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
EXTIMATE TECHNOLOGY
SELF-FORMATION IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
PART I What Is the Self?
1 The Essentialist and Dualist Self and Why It Cannot Be Sustained 1.1 Aristotle’s Grounding of Essentialism 18 1.2 Descartes’ Elevation of the Self to an Independent Substance 24 1.3 Why the Essentialist Approach Is Alluring but Untenable 31
From “Self” to “Self-Formation”
2.1 Nietzsche’s Will to Power as an Anti-Essentialist Ontology 41
2.2 Peirce’s Phenomenological and Pragmatist Categories as Basis for an Interactionist Account of Self-Formation 52
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