ABSTRACT

1. Social determination of personality 2. Bakhtin on introspection 3. Ideological subjectivities 4. Godwin’s Satan 5. Godwin on self-denial 6. Parfit on self-denial 7. Social contexts in James 8. Three sets of wants 9. Wants and norms in Isabel’s practical reasoning 10. Freedom as a value 11. The drift towards norms 12. Norms and the sense of self 13. Selfhood and back-sliding