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Wanting to keep to the perspectives of early modern culture, I have largely resisted the temptation throughout this book to associate its findings with those of contemporary research on selfhood. An epilogue seems a good place briefly to yield to that temptation. Recent work in various fields — particularly psychoanalysis — has begun to move toward interpersonal models of the self, and I want to suggest some connections between some of that work and the early modern conceptions that the foregoing chapters have explored. Broadly speaking, two points of connection stand out: a sense of the priority of the interpersonal self and a concern for the ethics of selfhood — that is, for the way that different modes of selfhood are part of its interpersonal politics.
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Carol Gilligan The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love (New York: Random House, 2002).
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Selleck, N. (2008). Epilogue: Subjects, Objects, and Contemporary Theory. In: The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582132_6
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