The Entrepreneurial Self: Fabricating a New Type of Subject / Edition 1

by Ulrich Bröckling

Overview

A seminal study from a major name in sociology. Ulrich Brockling explores how the contemporary call for entrepreneurship leads to permanent 'over-challenging', exacerbates feelings of powerlessness and generates unbounded anger. We are promised that the most capable will reap the most success, but no amount of effort can remove the risk of failure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473902343
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/25/2015
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ulrich Brockling is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

Genealogy of Subjectification
Tracing the Contours of the Entrepreneurial Self
The Rationality of the Entrepreneurial Self
The Truth about the Market: variants of neo-liberalism
The Four Functions of the Entrepreneur
The Contractual World
Strategies and Programmes
Creativity
Empowerment
Quality
Projects
Conclusion: Lines of flight – the art of being different differently

Editorial Reviews

This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to become entrepreneurs of our selves, to maximise and optimise our capacities in ways that align personal identity and political responsibility.

Peter Miller