On willing selves: neoliberal politics vis-a-vis the neuroscientific challenge

Abstract

Introduction / Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter -- Self, past and present / Sabine Maasen, Barbara Sutter, Stefanie Duttweiler -- Self-help : the making of neoscocial selves in neoliberal society / Alois Hahn, Marin Schorch -- Technologies of the will and their Christian roots : self and (socio-)scientific knowledge / Nikolas Rose -- Governing the will in a neurochemical age / Armin Nassehi -- The person as an effect of communication self and politics / John Clarke, Janet Newman, Louise Westmarland -- Creating citizen-consumers? public service reform and (un)willing selves / Barbara Cruikshank -- Neopolitics : voluntary action in the new regime / Mariana Valverde -- Craving research : smart drugs and the elusiveness of desire self and morality / Kenneth J. Gergen -- From voluntary to relational action : responsibility in question / Tillmann Vierkant -- The role of the self-model for self-determination