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A review by vicachua
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman
5.0
What a book. What insights into reality. Thank You Lord for this masterful brushstroke of the various undercurrents of the past few centuries that have led to the expressive individualism of today’s modern society where meaning and identity is found inwards rather than outwards.
Tracing the influences of many thinkers like Rousseau, the Romantics, Marx, Freud, and Marcuse, Trueman lays the groundwork for a deeper and more holistic understanding of today’s “strawberry/snowflake generation” and LGBTQ+ movement.
Inspired to further read into history and improve my reading diet in terms of the ratio of old books to new, since the ethics of authenticity and emotivism has become the water in which we’ve swim.
Tracing the influences of many thinkers like Rousseau, the Romantics, Marx, Freud, and Marcuse, Trueman lays the groundwork for a deeper and more holistic understanding of today’s “strawberry/snowflake generation” and LGBTQ+ movement.
Inspired to further read into history and improve my reading diet in terms of the ratio of old books to new, since the ethics of authenticity and emotivism has become the water in which we’ve swim.