The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800 By Lynn Hunt Material:Hard Cover Open Water asks what it

Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body

Emma Donoghue’s mesmerising new novel

a beginning and an end

is still in love with street-smart Zeb

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The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800 By Lynn Hunt Material:Hard Cover Open Water asks what itAn illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions. Since the eighteenth century, one of the defining concerns of modern life has been the tension between the self and society: we believe in a persons autonomy, but we also acknowledge that people are shaped by social and cultural forces. The Revolutionary Self delves into this paradox, turning to the eighteenth century as an era when new ideas about the