Concepts of the self / Anthony Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Anthony, 1964- author.

Series:

Key concepts (Polity Press)

Key concepts series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self.

Physical Description:

x, 225 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Smart guide to a wide range of theories of the social self"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Self, Society and Everyday Life p. 26

Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism p. 28

Presentations of Self: Goffman p. 35

Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens p. 42

2 The Repression of Self p. 51

Psychoanalysis and the Self p. 54

Culture and Repression p. 70

3 Technologies of the Self p. 84

Technologies of the Self: Foucault p. 87

Governmentality: New Technologies, New Selves p. 102

4 Self, Sexuality and Gender p. 110

Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views p. 110

The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler p. 122

Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender p. 127

5 The Postmodern Self p. 136

All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern? p. 137

Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern p. 147

6 The Algorithmic Self p. 154

The Brave New World of AI p. 156

Chatbots, Talk and the Self p. 160

Algorithmic Surveillance and the Self p. 167

7 The Individualized Self: From Reinvention to Mobile Lives p. 175

Individualization of the Self p. 177

Self-Reinvention: The New Individualism p. 184

The Mobile Self p. 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Elliott, Anthony, Concepts of the self

ISBN:

9781509538799

1509538798

9781509538805

1509538801

OCLC:

1127066836