Practices of Selfhood

by Zygmunt Bauman and Rein Raud

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745690173
• ISBN13: 9780745690179
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"