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The Playing Self : Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society
Overview
The Playing Self addresses the impact of the information revolution, globalization, and 'permanent uncertainty' on identity formation and experience of everyday life. Bringing together in a unique combination subjective, cultural and structural dimensions of social change and social action, Melucci provides a brilliant and original phenomenological analysis of the self and its vicissitudes in 'post-industrial society.' Remarkably free of jargon and deeply serious, this text is a 'must' for anyone interested in the challenges to and new opportunities for individual freedom in an increasingly complex world.'-----Jean Cohen, Columbia University
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- ISBN-13: 9780521564823
- ISBN-10: 0521564824
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: July 1996
- Dimensions: 8.98 x 6.06 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 188
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