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Author Elliott, Anthony, 1964-

Title Identity in Question
Published London : Sage Publications, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Editors' Introduction; 1 -- Identity in the Globalizing World; 2 -- Losing the Traditional:Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms'; 3 -- The Global New Individualist Debate: Three Theories of Individualism and Beyond; 4 -- Heeding Piedade's Song: Feminism and Sublime Affinity; 5 -- Top Girls? Young Women and the Post-feminist Sexual Contract; 6 -- The Identities of Self-Interest: Performativity, History, Ethics; 7 -- The Constitution of Identity: Primary Repression After Kristeva and Laplanche; 8 -- Melancholic Identities:Post-traumatic Loss, Memory and Identity Formation
9 -- Goodbye to Identity?10 -- Cathected Identities: Governance and Community Activism; 11 -- Psy-Art: Re-Imagining Identity; Index
Summary A spectacular collection of essays by the most noted theorists of identity. The book well frames the issues around identity that presently are defining living in the early 21st century A must read' - Patricia Ticineto Clough, City University, New York. 'A wonderfully disparate and impressively distinguished set of authors to address the question of identity. The result is exciting and fruitful. No other book connects so elegantly sociological notions of individualization with the psychoanalysis of melancholy' - Scott Lash, Goldsmiths College, University of London. 'A series of cutting-edge pap
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Group identity -- Congresses
Individuality -- Congresses
PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
Group identity
Individuality
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Du Gay, Paul
ISBN 9780857026644
085702664X
9781412922432
1412922437
9781473903777
1473903777
9781446213698
1446213692