Debbora Battaglia, Debbora Battaglia — Rhetorics of Self-Making

Paperback; 1995; University Of California Press; 156pp.; Fris en schoon binnenwerk. Omslag met rechte rug en scherpe handen. De status 'redelijk' is te wijten aan een prijssticker op het achterplat en een aan onderzijde van achterplat over de rug naar voorplat lopende sticker met titel, code en auteur. -- Conditie: Redelijk; Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to literature. "An exceptionally stimulating work. . . . Likely to become a classic."-Donald Brenneis, Pitzer College Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions cover a broad range of topics--from the development of the eccentric self to the ritual circumcision of Jewish males.; Engels; ISBN10: 0520087992, ISBN13: 9780520087996