Bibliograph

Self-made, creating our identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, Tara Isabella Burton

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Label

Self-made, creating our identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, Tara Isabella Burton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Self-made

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1348377615

Responsibility statement

Tara Isabella Burton

Sub title

creating our identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Summary

"As the forces of social media and capitalism collide, and individualism becomes more important than ever across a wide array of industries, "branding ourselves" or actively defining our selves for others has become the norm. Yet, this phenomenon is not new. In Self-Made, Tara Isabella Burton shows us how we arrived at this moment of fervent personal branding. Through a series of chronological biographical essays on famous (and infamous) "self-creators" in the modern Western world, from the Renassiance to the Enlightenment to modern capitalism and finally to our present moment of mass media, Burton examines the theories and forces behind our never-ending need to curate ourselves"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: how we became gods? -- Stand up for bastards -- Shaking off the yoke of authority -- A sneer for the world -- Work! work! work! --Light came in as a flood -- The dandy of the unexpected -- I shall be ruling the world from now on -- The power of it -- You basically just said you were -- Do it yourself -- Because I felt like it -- Epilogue: how to be yourself

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