The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject

by Toby Miller

In The Well-Tempered Self, Toby Miller argues that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of cultural forces to send deliberately mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. The process creates ideal citizens: cultural subjects trained to meet the conflicting needs of the political and economic systems. Miller contents that capitalism's democratic politics requires selfless, community-minded citizens, white its economics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801846048
• ISBN13: 9780801846045
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"