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Bibliography

Please purchase the following books (as they are not available online and not expensive. We need them a lot):

Kenan, Malik, Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell us about Human Nature (London, 2002)

Outram, Dorinda, The Enlightenment, 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 2013).

Bibliography (selected)

Alexander, Denis R., Numbers, Ronald L., Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Darwkins (2010).

Burke, Joanna, What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present (London, 2011).

Biehl, Joao, Good, Byron and Kleinman, Arthur (eds), Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (Berkeley, 2007)

Cassirer, Ernst, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1932), transl. (Boston 1966).

Ibid., The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy (New York, 1963).

Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene (1989) (London, 2006).

Dear, Peter, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambition, 2nd ed. (Basingstoke, 2009) (electronic resources library).

Dupre, John, Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford, 2001).

Elliott, Anthony, Concepts of the Self, 3rd. ed (Oxford, 2014).

Hall, James, The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History (London, 2014).

Harris, James, The Ascent of Man: A Philosophy of Human Nature (New York, 2012).

Heller, Thomas C., Sosna, Morton, Wellberry, David E. (eds), Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought (Stanford, 1986).

Laqueur, Thomas, Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud (Cambridge, 1990).

Harvey, David, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford, 2005).

Martin, Raymond, Barresi, John, The Rise and Fall of the Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity (New York, 2006).

O'Neil, John, The Authority of Experience: Sensationalist Theory in the French Enlightenment (1996).

Petrysazk, Chris, 'Sociological Theory and Human Nature', The Pacific Sociological Review 23,2 (1980): 131-150.

Porter, Roy (ed.), Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present (London, 1997).

Riskin, Jessica, The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick (Chicago, 2016).

Rose, Nicolas, Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood (New York, 1996)

Sayers, Sean, Reality and Reason: Dialectic and the Theory of Knowledge (London, 1985).

Seigel, Jerrold E., The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century (New York, 2005).

Sorabji, Richard, Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death (Oxford, 2006).

Taylor, Charles, Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (Cambridge, 1971).

Todorov, Tzetan, On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought (Cambridge, 1993).

Sayers, Saen, Marxism and Human Nature (London, 1998).

Smith, Roger, Between Mind and Nature: The History of Psychology (London, 2013).

Ibid., Roger Smith, Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature (Manchester, 2007).

Wilson, Edward O., On Human Nature (1995).