Enigmas of identity /
"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because of that failure, we keep searching for identity, making it up, trying to authenticate it, and inventing excuses for our unpersuasive stories about it. This wide-ranging book draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781400839698 1400839696 1283227444 9781283227445 9786613227447 6613227447 |