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The Playing Self is a groundbreaking new work from influential cultural sociologist and clinical psychologist Alberto Melucci, best known for his work on social movements and collective identities. In this book, he delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and socio-cultural entity, particularly in the context of a global society for which information has become a basic resource. His phenomenological approach accounts for the self both as a site of highly subjective and intimate experiences, such as crying, laughing and loving, and in relation to social structural dynamics, through more impersonal experiences, such as the experience of time, and links of the self to politics. Melucci explores the critical search for meaning at the boundary of visible collective processes and individual day-to-day experience.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Playing Self
• Subtitle: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society
• Author: Alberto Melucci
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• EAN: 9780521564823
• ISBN: 0521564824
• ID: 04092875
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 154 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. July 1996

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