To Overcome Oneself: The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520–1767 - J. Michelle Molina - Books - University of California Press - 9780520275652 - June 1, 2013
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To Overcome Oneself: The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520–1767

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Offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. This title demonstrates that it was through embodied processes that humans have come to experience themselves as split into mind and body.


292 pages, 6 b/w photographs

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 1, 2013
ISBN13 9780520275652
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 292
Dimensions 162 × 235 × 23 mm   ·   542 g

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