The Playing Self Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society [Hardcover]

An important book from influential author, develops ideas about the self in global, information society.In this groundbreaking book, influential cultural sociologist Alberto Melucci 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.In this groundbreaking book, influential cultural sociologist Alberto Melucci 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.In this groundbreaking book, influential cultural sociologist Alberto Melucci delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and sociocultural entity, particularly in the context of a global society for which information has become a basic resource. He accounts for the self 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.Introduction; 1. The challenge of the everyday; 2. Needs, identity, normality; 3. Metamorphosis of the multiple self; 4. The inner planet; 5. Body as limit, body as message; 6. On taking care; 7. The abyss of difference; 8. Amorous senses; 9. Inhabiting the earth; 10. A eulogy to wonder; Epilogue; Bibliographical note; References; Index. The Playing Self explores the psychic paradoxes of contemporary life. He combines cultural and psychological analyses in a distinctive, readable manner. The result is that every page of this original book contains quotable phrases and imaginative insights. Michael Billig, Professor of Social Sciences, Loughborough University I would like to emphasize the deep originality and importance of these books, which not only provide us with a large amount of information, butlƒ+