Modernity and Self-Identity

安东尼・吉登斯（AnthonyGiddens）英国著名社会理论家和社会学家，是当代欧洲社会思想界中少有的大师级学者。他生于1938年，曾在赫尔大学，伦敦经济学院和剑桥大学学习，1963年在莱斯特大学授课，1970年转为剑桥皇家学院院士，现任剑桥大学教授。

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Anthony Giddens

页数:264

出版时间:1991-7-1

价格:USD 25.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780804719445

图书标签:社会学sociologyModernityIdentity现代性Giddens吉登斯英文原版

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Modernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of traditional habits and customs, and its global impact. It also radicallly alters the general nature of daily life and the most personal aspects of human activity. In fact, one of the most distinctive features of modernity is the increasing interconnection between globalizing influences and personal dispositions. The author analyzes the nature of this interconnection and provides a conceptual vocabulary for it, in the process providing a major rethinking of the nature of modernity and a reworking of basic premises of sociological analysis. Building on the ideas set out in the authors The Consequences of Modernity, this book focuses on the self and the emergence of new mechanisms of self-identity that are shaped by--yet also shape--the institutions of modernity. The author argues that the self is not a passive entity, determined by external influences. Rather, in forging their self-identities, no matter how local their contexts of action, individuals contribute to and directly promote social influences that are global in their consequences and implications. The author sketches the contours of the he calls "high modernity"--the world of our day--and considers its ramifications for the self and self-identity. In this context, he analyzes the meaning to the self of such concepts as trust, fate, risk, and security and goes on the examine the "sequestration of experience," the process by which high modernity separates day-to-day social life from a variety of experiences and broad issues of morality. The author demonstrates how personal meaninglessness--the feeling that life has nothing worthwhile to offer--becomes a fundamental psychic problem in circumstances of high modernity. The book concludes with a discussion of "life politics," a politics of selfactualization operating on both the individual and collective levels.

读后感

通宵达旦看完，精神满满。 读这本书的乐趣就在于你会非意识地扯上自己加以思考，很有意思， 很修养！ 虽然很多地方翻译的很蹩脚，但读着读着你就会发觉其实意会的成就感已经可以让你忽略对翻译的那些文字晦涩的不适了。哈哈哈

一共就读过吉登斯两本书，一本《现代性的后果》，一本这个《现代性与自我认同》，每次都不是很愉悦的阅读体验，前者好像还好，不过现在也悲催地忘记书里在讲什么了，无比郁闷当时没有做笔记。这本呢，分析周密，整体逻辑架构清晰，吉登斯也实在底蕴深厚地信手拈来各家论...  

总体的感觉就是生涩难懂。本书涉及很多抽象名词，比如说本体安全、身体之反身性师范、脱域机制等。就这一个个名词就够琢磨咯，更别说其理论化的内容。总之，就是读着很不爽快。这种写作方式让人看一眼就想扔一边。又不得不再拿起来，再看一眼，还是不想看。于是就痛苦的的在看...  

用户评价

Inner Authenticity & Coherent Narrative

crazy book, very good point of self narrative as the end of self identity though its constructed and structured.

Inner Authenticity & Coherent Narrative

这本书真是在我最需要时，出现在我面前的！

可以又名《后现代时代的广义亲密关系指导指南》。读完都想和Giddens谈恋爱了——为什么大二时我没读完这本书啊！！