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THE PLAYING SELF
PERSON AND MEANING IN THE PLANETARY SOCIETY |
| By: |
Alberto Melucci, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521564824 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521564823 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 July, 1996 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies |
| Pages: |
188 |
| Description: |
An important book from influential author, develops ideas about the self in global, information society. |
| Synopsis: |
The Playing Self is a groundbreaking new work from influential cultural sociologist and clinical psychologist Alberto Melucci, best known for his work on social movements and collective identities. In this book, he delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and socio-cultural entity, particularly in the context of a global society for which information has become a basic resource. His phenomenological approach accounts for the self both as a site of highly subjective and intimate experiences, such as crying, laughing and loving, and in relation to social structural dynamics, through more impersonal experiences, such as the experience of time, and links of the self to politics. Melucci explores the critical search for meaning at the boundary of visible collective processes and individual day-to-day experience. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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