Agency and Alienation
A Theory of Human Wholeness

In recent years there has been an increasing interest among philosophers in "the self" and the concept of "wholeness". This book attempts to further articulate this idea and give an account of what it is to be whole or have an integrated personality.

One of the objectives of this book is to give a better account of what it is to be whole or to have an integrated personality.

Part 1 Theory: alienness - the experience of one's own incoherence
activity
the self as integrated personality
agency and the possibility of alienness. Part 2 Context of self experience: alienness and self-understanding
alienness and authentic political engagement
alienness and the human condition - the philosophical context. Part 3 Conclusion: Alienated labour and alienated man.