The Righting of Passage: Perceptions of Change After Modernity

by A. David Napier

Today, much theory in the social sciences assumes that the acceptance of experience as inevitably unruly means that it is characterized by constant change and even by chaos. In such a world, we are told, the unordered qualities of daily living create so much uncertainty that identity itself becomes unstable. But this view, David Napier argues, begs a fundamental question: if contemporary life is as flexible and unstructured as, for example, postmodernists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237765
• ISBN13: 9780812237764
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.5"