1st Edition

Self-Identity and Everyday Life

By Harvie Ferguson Copyright 2009
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms routinely used throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday life and experience. Yet these terms are seldom defined or used with any precision, and scant regard is paid to the historical and cultural context in which they arose, or to which they are applied. This innovative book provides fresh historical insights... Read more

Interruption (1): Story 1. Concepts Interruption (2): Theory 2. Contexts Interruption (3): History 3. Unities Interruption (4): Memory 4. Totalities Interruption (5): Sympton 5.  Fragments Interruption (6): Fiction

Biography

Harvie Ferguson is a sociologist with wide-ranging interests in historical, cultural, and existential aspects of the development of modern society. His recent work includes studies of warfare, the development of modern Japanese society, and phenomenology.  He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

'Harvie Ferguson’s Self-Identity and Everyday Life is a most welcome addition to Routledge’s everyday life titles in general and its New Sociology series in particular...Self-Identity and Everyday Life could be used across the humanities and social sciences, particularly by social theorists and interdisciplinary practitioners interested in self-identity or the much neglected area of everyday life studies.'The Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2010