The playing self : person and meaning in the planetary society
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The playing self : person and meaning in the planetary society
（Cambridge cultural social studies）
Cambridge University Press, 1996
- : hard
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 162-174
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Playing Self is a groundbreaking new work from influential cultural sociologist and clinical psychologist Alberto Melucci, best known for his work on social movements and collective identities. In this book, he delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and socio-cultural entity, particularly in the context of a global society for which information has become a basic resource. His phenomenological approach accounts for the self both as a site of highly subjective and intimate experiences, such as crying, laughing and loving, and in relation to social structural dynamics, through more impersonal experiences, such as the experience of time, and links of the self to politics. Melucci explores the critical search for meaning at the boundary of visible collective processes and individual day-to-day experience.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The challenge of the everyday
- 2. Needs, identity, normality
- 3. Metamorphosis of the multiple self
- 4. The inner planet
- 5. Body as limit, body as message
- 6. On taking care
- 7. The abyss of difference
- 8. Amorous senses
- 9. Inhabiting the earth
- 10. A eulogy to wonder
- Epilogue
- Bibliographical note
- References
- Index.
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