Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century - Psychological, Sociological, and Political Perspectives

The contributors to this volume explore the perils and promise of the self in the modern world.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Subjectivity and strong relationality Frank C. Richardson and Robert L. Woolfolk; 2. A multi-voiced and dialogical self and the challenge of social power in a globalizing world Hubert J. M. Hermans; 3. Technology and the tributaries of relational being Kenneth J. Gergen; 4. Melancholic subjectivity Stephen Frosh; 5. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: self-consciousness in the twenty-first century John Hewitt; 6. New kinds of subjective uncertainty? Technologies of art, self, and confusions of memory in the twenty-first century Ciarán Benson; 7. Radical subjectivity and the n-row wampum: a general model for autonomous relations against and beyond the dominant global order? Richard J. F. Day and Adam Lewis; 8. The theory of new individualism Anthony Elliott; 9. Feminism, Foucault, and globalized subjectivity Margaret A. McLaren.

About the author

Romin W. Tafarodi earned his PhD in social psychology from the University of Texas, Austin in 1994. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Professor Tafarodi has published in the areas of self, identity, and culture, and has taught courses on topics ranging from statistics to philosophy to anthropology to media studies. He is a strong proponent of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship in an age of increasing academic specialization.

Summary

The contributors to this volume explore the perils and promise of the self in the modern world. Their shared focus is on subjectivity as a dialectic of self and other, or individual and society, and how the defining tensions of subjectivity are reflected in contemporary forms of individualism, identity, autonomy, social connection, and political consciousness.

Product details

• Authors: Romin W. Tafarodi, Romin W. (University of Toronto) Tafarodi
• Assisted by: Romin W. Tafarodi (Editor), Tafarodi Romin W. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781316502822
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50282-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Culture and Psychology; Culture and Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social, group or collective psychology