Today we are confronted with a number of serious problems threatening our existence and identity as human beings. This interdisciplinary edited collection sugge

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens arg

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The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms 'the troubled identity', that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. Through an identity-b