Anthony Elliott - Concepts of the Self

1 Series title

2 Title page Concepts of the Self 4th edition Anthony Elliott polity

3 Copyright page

4 Dedication

5 Acknowledgements

6 Introduction The Arts of Self Concepts of the Self The Structure of the Book

7 1 Self, Society and Everyday Life Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism Presentations of Self: Goffman Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens Further Reading

8 2 The Repression of Self Psychoanalysis and the Self Culture and Repression Further Reading

9 3 Technologies of the Self Technologies of the Self: Foucault Governmentality: New Technologies, New Selves Further Reading

10 4 Self, Sexuality and Gender Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender Further Reading

11 5 The Postmodern Self All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern? Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern Further Reading

12 6 The Algorithmic Self The Brave New World of AI Chatbots, Talk and the Self Algorithmic Surveillance and the Self Further Reading Note

13 7 The Individualized Self: From Reinvention to Mobile Lives Individualization of the Self Self-Reinvention: The New Individualism Reinvention Instant change Speed Short-termism The Mobile Self Further Reading

14 Conclusion Inner Depth, or Inside Out Identity Politics, or Critique of Self Afterword: Global Identities, the Rise of Anti-Self Theories and New Horizons

15 Index

16 End User License Agreement

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4th edition

Anthony Elliott

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First edition published in 2001 by Polity Press

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Names: Elliott, Anthony, 1964- author.

Title: Concepts of the self / Anthony Elliott.

Description: 4th edition. | Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2020. | Series: Key concepts series | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Smart guide to a wide range of theories of the social self”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019050975 (print) | LCCN 2019050976 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509538799 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509538805 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509538812 (epub)

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