Modernity and self-identity : self and society in the late modern age
The main argument of this study is that "late" modernity is a post-traditional order characterized by a developed institutional reflexivity. Under influence of the globalizing tendencies of modern institutions, the self becomes a "reflexive project".
Print Book, English, 1991
Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, U.K., 1991
256 pages ; 23 cm
9780745608891, 9780745609324, 9780804719445, 0745608892, 0745609325, 0804719446
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The contours of high modernity
The self : ontological security and existential anxiety
The trajectory of the self
Fate, risk and security
The sequestration of experience
Tribulations of the self
The emergence of life politics
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