Noah York’s Reviews > The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution > Status Update

What do you think so far, Noah? I've noticed people can have very different reactions to this book, and even having finished it I'm still deciding what I think of it.

So far I think the book is fantastic, but most everything I've read has been a history of the self and I haven't gotten to a lot of his analysis yet.

It's a really helpful book in that way - the section on Marcuse's marriage of Marx with Freud definitely gave me a lightbulb moment as to why we've got this highly sexualized identity politics. Section on the fragmentation within the LGBT alliance was also very interesting. However, the book never gets deep into analysis. If you'd like to dig deep in this area, I would check out the New Polity podcast series running now: they're grappling with queer theory at a really high intellectual level and in a way that actually addresses the gnosticizing approach of these theorists. Pints with Aquinas also has a long form interview on Theology of the Body which was fantastic if you've got the time to dedicate.