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Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 3)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This highly original book turns this basic feature of life with HIV into the vantage point for a fascinating analysis of Western subjectivity. Combining a host of empirical observations with the debate on the modern self, the author argues that the self-construction of people with HIV highlights the precarious yet indispensable status of the self in contemporary Western society. Constructing one's biography in terms of self-actualization is in fact a manifestation of nihilism: it evokes a standard of certainty which, on closer examination, cannot be sustained.
Written in a lucid style, this unique book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, social theory and philosophy, as well as anybody interested in the relationship between the self and society or the experience of living with HIV/AIDS.
Authors and Affiliations
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London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Sebastian Rinken
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self
Book Subtitle: Biographical Self-Construction in the Awareness of Finitude
Authors: Sebastian Rinken
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9502-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6371-2Published: 31 August 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5484-5Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9502-5Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 242
Topics: Ethics, Sociology, general, Philosophy, general