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The Protean Self : Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
The Protean Self Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226480985
ISBN-10: 0226480984
Publication Date: 11/1/1999
Pages: 272
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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"A powerful vision of the future of the self and the self of the future. 'The Protean Self' is Lifton's most hopeful book -- and for that reason it may be his most important one." -- Irvin D. Yalom


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