Is the Self a Modern Invention?

In the book, you entertain the theory that notions of the self and selfhood as we know them to day, are products of modernity. You contrast that with the pre modern condition and the pre modern understanding of what it meant to be a human,. ought to be a subject. So in that contrast, there's the idea that pre madernity was a time when, as subjects, human beings were somewhat more passive. Perhaps tha aas negative connotations nowadays.