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The empowered self : law and society in the age of individualism

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Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 1999Description: 312pISBN:
  • 9780198298410
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.500000 FRA
Contents:
Contents 1. Tribe, Nation, State: Traditional Forms of Imposed Identity; 2. The Dreary Future of Imposed Identity: A World of 2,000 States; 3. A Different Future: Individualism as Identity; 4. Citizenship: An Instance of Identity as a Personal act of Self-Determination; 5. Community Based on Personal Autonomy; 6. Freedom of Conscience: A "Western" Value?; 7. Constructing the Self: Name, Gender, Career and Privacy; 8. The Individual as Emerging Rights-Holder; 9. The Individual Against the Group; 10. Personal Freedom, Personal Responsibility and Their Democratic Reconciliation; 11. Summing Up.
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Contents
1. Tribe, Nation, State: Traditional Forms of Imposed Identity;
2. The Dreary Future of Imposed Identity: A World of 2,000 States;
3. A Different Future: Individualism as Identity;
4. Citizenship: An Instance of Identity as a Personal act of Self-Determination;
5. Community Based on Personal Autonomy;
6. Freedom of Conscience: A "Western" Value?;
7. Constructing the Self: Name, Gender, Career and Privacy;
8. The Individual as Emerging Rights-Holder;
9. The Individual Against the Group;
10. Personal Freedom, Personal Responsibility and Their Democratic Reconciliation;
11. Summing Up.