Troubled Identity And The Modern World

by L. Donskis

2020-11-25 08:16:43

The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms the troubled identity, that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. It is on why and how the search for identity becomes everything for a postmodern person, an identity builder and ... Read more

The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms the troubled identity, that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. It is on why and how the search for identity becomes everything for a postmodern person, an identity builder and shifter. Our infatuation with it replaces the former search for the meaning of life, becoming a mode of discourse, self-discovery, self-interpretation, and a perfect chance to reshape ourselves as the other in our country. Identity protects and hurts us. Through an identity-building-and-shifting process, argues Donskis, we can move from political majority to cultural minority, or the other way around. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0.67 in
Print pages218
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date June 16, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780230607705

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