The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society

ISBN-13: 9780521564823 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 188 str.

Alberto Melucci; Jeffrey C. Alexander; Steven Seidman

Opis

In this groundbreaking book, influential cultural sociologist Alberto Melucci delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and sociocultural entity, particularly in the context of a global society for which information has become a basic resource. He accounts for the self 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.

Recenzje

'Provides a brilliant and original phenomenological analysis of the self and its vicissitudes in 'post industrial society'. Remarkably free of jargon and deeply serious, this text is a must for anyone interested in the challenges to and new opportunities for individual freedom in an increasingly complex world.' Jean Cohen, Columbia University

Spis treści

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.