The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society

by Alberto Melucci

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking book, influential cultural sociologist Alberto Melucci delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and sociocultural entity, particularly in the context of a global society for which information has become a basic resource. He accounts for the self 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521564824
• ISBN13: 9780521564823
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"