1. The Phenomenon: The Self-Improvement Imperative
2. The History: Ancient Philosophers, Priests, and Humanists in Search of Self-Knowledge and Perfection
3. The Society: Modern Self-Obsession from Rousseau to Hipster Existentialism
4. The Political Economy: Self-Taming and Exploitation Under Wellness Capitalism
5. The Technology: Categorized, Measured, Quantified, and Enhanced, or Why AI Knows Us Better Than Ourselves
6. The Solution (Part I): Relational Self and Social Change
7. The Solution (Part II): Technologies That Tell Different Stories About Us
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Index