ABSTRACT
LIBERTY AND SELF-FULFILMENT: THE IDEAL OF THE SELF AND PRACTICES OF IDENTITY-FORMATION
Broadly speaking we can consider the period from the late eighteenth to the midnineteenth century as the time of the building of early, restricted liberal, modernity in the Northwestern quarter of the world. It brought with it the emergence of what we may call modern culture as ‘a new moral culture [that] radiates outward and downward from the upper middle classes of England, America, and (for some facets) France’. This modern culture is predicated, not least, on a certain conception of the human self.
