Modernity and Self-Identity - 9780804719445
Un libro in lingua di Anthony Giddens edito da Stanford Univ Pr, 1991
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Building on the ideas set out in the authors The Consequences of Modernity
, this book focuses on the self and the emergence of new mechanisms of self-identity that are shaped by?yet also shape?the institutions of modernity. The author argues that the self is not a passive entity, determined by external influences. Rather, in forging their self-identities, no matter how local their contexts of action, individuals contribute to and directly promote social influences that are global in their consequences and implications.
The author sketches the contours of the he calls ?high modernity”?the world of our day?and considers its ramifications for the self and self-identity. In this context, he analyzes the meaning to the self of such concepts as trust, fate, risk, and security and goes on the examine the ?sequestration of experience,” the process by which high modernity separates day-to-day social life from a variety of experiences and broad issues of morality. The author demonstrates how personal meaninglessness?the feeling that life has nothing worthwhile to offer?becomes a fundamental psychic problem in circumstances of high modernity. The book concludes with a discussion of ?life politics,” a politics of selfactualization operating on both the individual and collective levels.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Modernity and Self-Identity
- Sottotitolo: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Anthony Giddens
- Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
- Collana: Stanford Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Luglio '91
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Social structure Identity (Psychology Self
- Pagine: 256
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0804719446
- EAN-13: 9780804719445