Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age - Softcover

Giddens, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804719446 ISBN 13: 9780804719445

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Title: Modernity and Self-Identity( Self and Society in the Late Modern Age) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: AnthonyGiddens <>Publisher: StanfordUniversityPress

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Review:

'This book supplies the missing psychological link in Anthony Giddens' ever more substantial body of work on the sociology of modernity ... rich and measured ... His dialectical approach, moreover, affords many insights into the interconnection between the invasive and disorienting effects of commercial and technical imperatives.' New Statesman and Society

Synopsis:

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 characterized by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalizing tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to-day social life having profound implications for personal activities. The self becomes a 'reflexive project', sustained through a revisable narrative of self-identity. The reflexive project of the self, the author seeks to show, is a form of control or mastery which parallels the overall orientation of modern institutions towards 'colonising the future'. Yet it also helps promote tendencies which place that orientation radically in question - and which provide the substance of a new political agenda for late modernity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0804719446
• ISBN 13: 9780804719445
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264