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Concepts of the Self (3rd Ed.)
Key Concepts Series
Author: Elliott Anthony
Language: EnglishApproximative price 24.02 €
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The first two editions have proven exceptionally popular among students and teachers worldwide. Anthony Elliott provides a scintillating introduction to the major accounts of the self from symbolic interactionism and psychoanalysis to post–feminism and postmodernism. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of more recent theoretical developments, and a new chapter has been added on individualization which focuses on how the self becomes an agent of do–it–yourself autobiographical reconstruction in an age of intensive globalization.
Concepts of the Self remains the most lively, lucid and compelling introduction to contemporary controversies over the self and self–identity in the social sciences and humanities. Written by an author of international reputation, it connects debates about the self directly to identity politics, the sociology of personal relationships and intimacy, and the politics of sexuality, and will continue to be an invaluable introductory text for students in of social and political theory, sociology, social psychology, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
The Arts of Self 7
Concepts of the Self 12
The Structure of the Book 24
1 Self, Society and Everyday Life 28
Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism 30
Presentations of Self: Goffman 37
Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens 44
2 The Repression of Self 53
Psychoanalysis and the Self 56
Culture and Repression 72
3 Technologies of the Self 85
Technologies of the Self: Foucault 88
Governmentality: New Technologies, New Selves 103
4 Self, Sexuality and Gender 112
Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views 112
The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler 124
Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender 130
5 The Postmodern Self 138
All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern? 143
Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern 153
6 The Individualized Self: From Reinvention to Mobile Lives 161
Individualization of the Self 163
Self–Reinvention: The New Individualism 170
The Mobile Self 176
Conclusion 182
Inner Depth, or Inside Out 182
Identity Politics, or Critique of Self 186
Afterword: Global Identities, the Rise of Anti–Self Theories and New Horizons 189
Index 195
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