Transitional Selves

Introduction

This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress. It engages with crucial questions such as: What models are shaping our view of ourselves and the society in which we live? What images ground our perception of what is true and real? How have the images been historically produced? What are the effects of such models on definitions of self? Should we break free from these images if we get to know what they are? Is it possible to change our models in order to create freer identities?

Content Overview

Through a range of distinctive lenses, the essays in the volume deal with the ideas of the liminal self, the digital self, identities in flux, and offer up anthropologies of self/selves that situate current identity processes within their cultures and explore strategies and dilemmas from this perspective. This key volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of literary stories, critical theory, social theory, social anthropology, philosophy, and political philosophy.