Rhetorics of self-making /
This book advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood in three ways: First, it argues that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, it challenges the perv...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1995.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=11675 |
| Sumari: | This book advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood in three ways: First, it argues that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, it challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (vii, 147 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520915251 0520915259 058512955X 9780585129556 9780520087989 0520087984 9780520087996 0520087992 |