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Author Elliott, Anthony, 1964-
Title Concepts of the self / Anthony Elliott.
Publication Info Cambridge : Polity, 2014.
Edition Third edition.


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Descript x, 208 pages
Edition Third edition.
Note Previous edition: 2007.
Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 The Arts of Self 7 Concepts of the Self 12 The Structure of the Book 24 1 Self, Society and Everyday Life 28 Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism 30 Presentations of Self: Goffman 37 Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens 44 2 The Repression of Self 53 Psychoanalysis and the Self 56 Culture and Repression 72 3 Technologies of the Self 85 Technologies of the Self: Foucault 88 Governmentality: New Technologies, New Selves 103 4 Self, Sexuality and Gender 112 Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views 112 The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler 124 Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender 130 5 The Postmodern Self 138 All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern? 143 Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern 153 6 The Individualized Self: From Reinvention to Mobile Lives 161 Individualization of the Self 163 Self-Reinvention: The New Individualism 170 The Mobile Self 176 Conclusion 182 Inner Depth, or Inside Out 182 Identity Politics, or Critique of Self 186 Afterword: Global Identities, the Rise of Anti-Self Theories and New Horizons 189 Index 195
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780745679143 (e-book)
9780745661896 (pbk.)
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Author Elliott, Anthony, 1964-
Series Key concepts series
Key concepts (Polity Press)
Subject Self.
Descript x, 208 pages
Edition Third edition.
Note Previous edition: 2007.
Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 The Arts of Self 7 Concepts of the Self 12 The Structure of the Book 24 1 Self, Society and Everyday Life 28 Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism 30 Presentations of Self: Goffman 37 Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens 44 2 The Repression of Self 53 Psychoanalysis and the Self 56 Culture and Repression 72 3 Technologies of the Self 85 Technologies of the Self: Foucault 88 Governmentality: New Technologies, New Selves 103 4 Self, Sexuality and Gender 112 Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views 112 The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler 124 Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender 130 5 The Postmodern Self 138 All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern? 143 Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern 153 6 The Individualized Self: From Reinvention to Mobile Lives 161 Individualization of the Self 163 Self-Reinvention: The New Individualism 170 The Mobile Self 176 Conclusion 182 Inner Depth, or Inside Out 182 Identity Politics, or Critique of Self 186 Afterword: Global Identities, the Rise of Anti-Self Theories and New Horizons 189 Index 195
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780745679143 (e-book)
9780745661896 (pbk.)
Author Elliott, Anthony, 1964-
Series Key concepts series
Key concepts (Polity Press)
Subject Self.

Subject Self.
Descript x, 208 pages
Note Previous edition: 2007.
Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 The Arts of Self 7 Concepts of the Self 12 The Structure of the Book 24 1 Self, Society and Everyday Life 28 Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism 30 Presentations of Self: Goffman 37 Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens 44 2 The Repression of Self 53 Psychoanalysis and the Self 56 Culture and Repression 72 3 Technologies of the Self 85 Technologies of the Self: Foucault 88 Governmentality: New Technologies, New Selves 103 4 Self, Sexuality and Gender 112 Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views 112 The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler 124 Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender 130 5 The Postmodern Self 138 All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern? 143 Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern 153 6 The Individualized Self: From Reinvention to Mobile Lives 161 Individualization of the Self 163 Self-Reinvention: The New Individualism 170 The Mobile Self 176 Conclusion 182 Inner Depth, or Inside Out 182 Identity Politics, or Critique of Self 186 Afterword: Global Identities, the Rise of Anti-Self Theories and New Horizons 189 Index 195
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780745679143 (e-book)
9780745661896 (pbk.)
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