The Empire of the Self - Star, Christopher
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The author studies the question of how political reality affects the concepts of body, soul, and self. In this title, he argues that during the early Roman Empire the establishment of autocracy and the development of a universal ideal of individual autonomy were mutually enhancing phenomena.
He demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists--the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self.

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The author studies the question of how political reality affects the concepts of body, soul, and self. In this title, he argues that during the early Roman Empire the establishment of autocracy and the development of a universal ideal of individual autonomy were mutually enhancing phenomena.
He demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists--the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self.
Autorenporträt
Christopher Star is a professor of classics at Middlebury College. He is the author of The Empire of the Self: Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius and Seneca.