Description
Book SynopsisThis major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity.
Trade Review'In this book Anthony Giddens brings back in personality, the psyche, human nature itself. It is a pleasure and a real intellectual advance to have a social theorist of his stature revive the once central but long ignored study of personality and culture, character and society, especially a theorist with his very precise sense of what is truly modern in contemporary life.'
Professor Dennis Wrong, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 The Contours of High Modernity 10
2 The Self: Ontological Security and Existential Anxiety 35
3 The Trajectory of the Self 70
4 Fate, Risk and Security 109
5 The Sequestration of Experience 144
6 Tribulations of the Self 181
7 The Emergence of Life Politics 209
Notes 232
Glossary of Concepts 242
Index 245
