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Society in the Self: A Theory of Identity in Democracy shows how society is working in the deeper regions of self and identity. This book is an exploration of the democratic potentials of self and identity in a globalizing and localizing society.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Democratic Organization of Self and Identity
- Chapter 1. The Dynamics of Society-in-the-Self
- Chapter 2. Positioning and Democracy in the Self
- Chapter 3. Positioning and Democracy in Teams and Organizations
- Chapter 4. The Positioning Brain
- Chapter 5. Social and Societal Over-Positioning: The Emergence of I-Prisons
- Chapter 6. Heterogenizing and Enriching the Self
- Chapter 7. Dialogue as Generative Form of Positioning
- Chapter 8: Dialogical democracy in a boundary-crossing world: Practical implications
- Glossary
About the author
Hubert Hermans is emeritus professor of psychology at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, and president of the International Society for Dialogical Science. He is the creator of Dialogical Self Theory. One of his books was used in the formation of the Dutch government in 2007 and he was decorated as Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion for his exceptional scientific contribution to society.
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Society in the Self: A Theory of Identity in Democracy shows how society is working in the deeper regions of self and identity. This book is an exploration of the democratic potentials of self and identity in a globalizing and localizing society.
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Society in the Self is the latest advancement in the Dialogical Self theory that has been created by one of the most innovative social scientists of the recent decades: Hubert Hermans. This book extends the original system of the multi-voiced processes that take place in the human individual Self to the operation of societies, with the specific focus on how democratic societies function. This is very much needed in our present time when we often become involved in fighting for democracy in societies other than our own, not analyzing the complex processes by which our own democratic systems function. This book fills in the gap, and introduces a new way of analyzing societies as dynamic systems in their deep dialogical tensions and occasional ruptures.
