Troubled identity and the modern world
By: Leonidas Donskis.
Publisher: Palgrave; Springer; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York City, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Identity (Psychology); Group identity; Ethnicity; Cultural awareness
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: An identity in need of assurance and confirmation; title: To be or to forget : politics of remembering vs. politics of forgetting : the will-to-remember vs. the will-to-forget; title: Identity and the emergence of modern sensibilities : liberty, tradition, anger, and incessant change; title: Us and them : nationalism and patriotism revisited; title: Fear and loathing in liquid modernity; title: Forgetting the ends and then redoubling the efforts : fanaticism refusal to rely on senses and reason; title: Nowhere at home; title: Making and unmaking history : identities in ruins.