Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. part i: our steely encasement
6. 1. The Rise of Cybernetic Society: The Patterned World and the Fate of the Individual 31
7. 2. Social Domination, Social Systems, and the Constitution of the Self 74
8. 3. The Reification Problem and the Normative Entanglement Hypothesis 99
9. part II: an anatomy of heteronomy
10. 4. Alienation: From Autonomy to Moral Atrophy 129
11. 5. Reconsidering False Consciousness: An Etiology of Defective Social Cognition 151
12. 6. Cultivating Consent: Reification and the Web of Norms 169
13. 7. The Withering of the Self and the Regression of the Ego 192
14. part III: to the lighthouse
15. 8. Autonomy as Critical Agency: Reconstructing the Democratic Self 229
16. Notes 273
17. Bibliography 313
18. Index 331