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

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

晚期现代：指的是1960年代之后的世界。 自我认同：是要探讨，生活在晚期现代世界的我们，应该如何理解这个世界的运行规则，应该如何活得自主明白。 晚期现代人的生活方式：焦虑、不安，选择困难； 原因：吉登斯说，因为晚期现代社会充满了不确定，或者说充满了风险。 从宏观上...  

晚期现代：指的是1960年代之后的世界。 自我认同：是要探讨，生活在晚期现代世界的我们，应该如何理解这个世界的运行规则，应该如何活得自主明白。 晚期现代人的生活方式：焦虑、不安，选择困难； 原因：吉登斯说，因为晚期现代社会充满了不确定，或者说充满了风险。 从宏观上...  

I didn't finish the last two chapters in time for some one requested the book so I had to return it to the library. However the first five chapters give me very strong impression of word reflexivity. Since that Anthony Giddens believed modernity's importan...  

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