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Troubled identity and the modern world
Type of publication
Monografija / Monograph (K1a)
Author(s)
Author | Affiliation | |
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LT |
Title [en]
Troubled identity and the modern world
Date Issued
Date |
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2009 |
Publisher
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher (trusted)
Extent
240 p
Abstract (en)
The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms the troubled identity, that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. It is on why and how the search for identity becomes everything for a postmodern person, an identity builder and shifter. Our infatuation with it replaces the former search for the meaning of life, becoming a mode of discourse, self-discovery, self-interpretation, and a perfect chance to reshape ourselves as the other in our country. Identity protects and hurts us. Through an identity-building-and-shifting process, argues Donskis, we can move from political majority to cultural minority, or the other way around.
Type of document
type::text::book
Language
Anglų / English (en)
Coverage Spatial
Jungtinės Amerikos Valstijos / United States of America (US)
ISBN
9780230607705
Other Identifier(s)
VDU02-000007224