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Zygmunt Bauman - Practices of Selfhood - 9780745690179 - V9780745690179
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Practices of Selfhood

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This is a new book from two of the world?s leading social thinkers

The book is a wide-ranging analysis of the way in which social practices shape our sense of selfhood in the modern world The authors argue that the world in which we live today is one of uncertainty where nothing can be taken for granted. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 262.

Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self struggling with its unconscious. We no longer think of ourselves as stable and indivisible units or combinations thereof - instead, we see the self as constantly reinvented and reorganised in interaction with others and with its social and cultural environments. But the world in which we live today is one of uncertainty where nothing can be taken for granted. Coping with change is a challenge but it also presents new opportunities.

Uncertainty can be both liberating and oppressive. How ... Read more

These are the questions that Zygmunt Bauman and Rein Raud explore in their engaging and wide-ranging dialogue, combining their competences in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory to look at how selfhood is produced in social practice, through language, efforts of self-presentation and self-realisation as well as interaction with others. An indispensable text for understanding the complexities of selfhood in our contemporary liquid-modern world.

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Product Details

Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745690179
SKU
V9780745690179
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Zygmunt Bauman
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages.   REIN RAUD is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and has been a member of the Estonian Institute of Humanities in Talinn since its founding in 1988. ... Read more

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