About this title: Todays ever-expanding communications technologies force us to relate to more people and institutions than ever before, challenging the way we view ourselves and our relationships. This powerful and provocative book draws from a wide range of disciplinesfrom anthropology to psychoanalysis, from film and fiction to literary theoryto explore these profound changes in our understanding of self-identity and their implications for cultural and intellectual life.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780465071852ISBN:0465071856
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Front cover curls. Has some dog-earred pages. Same ISBN, different cover art. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 324 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2000-08
ISBN-13:9780465071852ISBN:0465071856
Description: Very Good. 24hr ship! Very nice condition, read once book with some edge wear and corner rubbing. Pages crisp, clean with no markings. Always courteous and honest service! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2000-08
ISBN-13:9780465071852ISBN:0465071856
Description: Excellent Conditon. SoftCover, Excellent Condition, clean/unmarked tight binding, minor edge/cover wear, from a private collection. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780465071852ISBN:0465071856
Description: Acceptable. Former Library Book and/or book has writing/highlighting * If you can deal with the writing/markings, this is a great deal! * read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2000-08
ISBN-13:9780465071852ISBN:0465071856
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Description: New. "Today's ever-expanding communications technologies force us to relate to more people and institutions than ever before, challenging the way we view ourselves and our relationships. This powerful and p" read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2000-08
ISBN-13:9780465071852ISBN:0465071856
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Today's ever-expanding communications technologies force us to relate to more people and institutions than ever before, challenging the way we view ourselves and our relationships. This powerful and provocative book draws from a wide range of disciplines— from anthropology to psychoanalysis, from film and fiction to literary theory ... read more
"I have to admit - I can't get enough POMO! I know, slap me, and slap me again for using the cheesy abbreviation of the term, but it's the truth... I thought I had my fill back in the 90's, but now I have a pile of books from the library and most of them are POMO-themed, some of them I've already read and some of them are new to me...
The Saturated Self is one of the rereads. I read it around '95 and remembered only that I liked it enough to remember it without disdain. Now, having reread it I can say that the book is a great middle-ground overview of the Self living in a Postmodern world.
The book is a great Psychological dissection of certain modern constructs that influence our psyche: gotta love the picture inside of the Playboy cover of Jessica Rabbit. Underneath the picture the author asks "When one's erotic interests are aroused by the body of Toontown's Jessica Rabbit...are these interests still human?" Hmmm? That's a deep question... no sarcasm there, really, it is... and that's just one of many questions you'll find yourself wondering about inside this great book.
The writing style is also pretty general and reader friendly without being bland. Gergen avoids all the pedantic pitfalls that most POMO books fall into: mainly run-on sentences.
Highly recommended if your here wondering what you should read next on the overwritten subject of POMO - you should read this... and besides, who can resist the subtitle: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life..."
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