SELF AND SOCIETY

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This course is designed to help us reflect upon what it means historically and in contemporary times to be a self and in particular a self among others. There are several ways in which we have somehow sought to be a "self." In American society we have historically concentrated on concepts of individualism which were generally tied to concepts of materialism. Later in the 20th Century, individualism morphed somehow into concepts of selfishness. Now, we live in the age of selfies wherein somehow our individual, even selfish, self may have somehow become entirely a matter of appearance and placement.