Episode 324: The Modern Self, Part 2

What do Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and William Blake have to do with the rise of the modern self? Carl Trueman suggests that they helped to lay the foundation for the modern view of the self. In this episode, we dive back in to Trueman's book "The Rise & Triumph of the Modern Self" to explore how these poets and philosophers have shaped our view of human personhood.