Modernity and Self-Identity
โ Scribed by Anthony Giddens
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 188
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction
1
1 The Contours of High Modernity
10
2 The Self: Ontological Security and Existential Anxiety
35
3 The Trajectory of the Self
70
4 Fate, Risk and Security
109
5 The Sequestration of Experience
144
6 Tribulations of the Self
181
7 The Emergence of Life Politics
209
Notes
232
Glossary of Concepts
242
Index
245
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