Anmerkungen:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- BEGINNING AND THE END -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- AN INTRODUCTION: WRITING THE SELF -- 1 The Home, the Journey and the Border -- 2 Identity and Narrative -- 3 Identity and the Unconscious -- 4 Identity and Difference -- 5 Foucault: Discipline and the Self -- 6 Foucault: Sex and the Technologies of the Self -- 7 The Condition of Postmodernity -- 8 Baudrillard: Images and Identity in Consumer Society -- 9 Consumer Identity and Commodity Aesthetics -- 10 National Identity: 'Englishness' and Education -- 11 Imperialism and Culture -- 12 'Race', Ethnicity and Nation-ness -- Index
This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity and narrative; and the general condition of postmodernity