The Playing Self(English, Hardcover, Melucci Alberto)

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The Playing Self(English, Hardcover, Melucci Alberto) is written by Melucci Alberto and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521564018 (ISBN 10) and 9780521564014 (ISBN 13).

The Playing Self is a groundbreaking new work from influential cultural sociologist and clinical psychologist Alberto Melucci, best known for his work on social movements and collective identities. In this book, he 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. His phenomenological approach accounts for the self both 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. Melucci explores the critical search for meaning at the boundary of visible collective processes and individual day-to-day experience.