Self-identity and everyday life

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Self-identity and everyday life

Harvie Ferguson

(The new sociology)

Routledge, 2009

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  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms routinely used throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday life and experience. Yet these terms are seldom defined or used with any precision, and scant regard is paid to the historical and cultural context in which they arose, or to which they are applied. This innovative book provides fresh historical insights in terms of the emergence, development, and interrelationship of specific and varied notions of identity and selfhood, and outlines a new sociological framework for analyzing it. This is the first historical/sociological framework for discussion of issues which have until now, generally been treated as 'philosophy' or 'psychology', and as such it is essential reading for those undergraduates and postgraduates of sociology, philosophy and history and cultural studies interested in the concepts of identity and self. It covers a broader range of material than is usual in this style of text, and includes a survey of relevant literature and precise analysis of key concepts written in a student-friendly style.

Table of Contents

Interruption (1): Story 1. Concepts Interruption (2): Theory 2. Contexts Interruption (3): History 3. Unities Interruption (4): Memory 4. Totalities Interruption (5): Sympton 5. Fragments Interruption (6): Fiction

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Details

  • NCID
    BA89780297
  • ISBN
    • 9780415355087
    • 9780415355094
  • LCCN
    2008046088
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 213 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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