The Self We Live by: Narrative Identity in a Postmodern World

by Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein

Book Overview

The self is a big story. In the early part of the century, pragmatists like William James, Charles Horton Cooley, and George Herbert Mead turned away from the transcendental self of philosophical reflection to formulate the new concept of an empirical selfthe notion that who and what we are is established in everyday interaction. The self was now a social structure, as Mead put it, even if it was located within the individual.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195119290
• ISBN13: 9780195119299
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"