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Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
Modernity and Selfidentity Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
Author: Anthony Giddens
This study aims to develop a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building on ideas set out in "The Consequences of Modernity", Giddens argues that "high" or "late" modernity is a post-traditional order characterized by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalizing tendencies of modern institutio...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780745608891
ISBN-10: 0745608892
Publication Date: 7/11/1991
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Polity Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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