Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Modernity and Self-Identity

Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1991.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 1991
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780745609324
• ISBN-10: 0745609325
• Artikelnr.: 14846192

Autorenporträt

Anthony Giddens is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and also Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 The Contours of High Modernity 10
2 The Self: Ontological Security and Existential Anxiety 35
3 The Trajectory of the Self 70
4 Fate, Risk and Security 109
5 The Sequestration of Experience 144
6 Tribulations of the Self 181
7 The Emergence of Life Politics 209
Notes 232
Glossary of Concepts 242
Index 245

Rezensionen

In this book Anthony Giddens brings back in personality, the psyche, human nature itself. It is a pleasure and a real intellectual advance to have a social theorist of his stature revive the once central but long ignored study of personality and culture, character and society, especially a theorist with his very precise sense of what is truly modern in contemporary life. Professor Dennis Wrong, New York University