Refiguring identity in corporate times : or rediscovering oneself in a consumer culture /

Refiguring Identity in Corporate Times is aimed as a response to the narcissistic life-strategies promoted by the marketplace. It introduces an identity model that ensures a more inclusive, ethical and authentic way of living one's own life-script. We live in a culture that requires us to creat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vella, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2023].
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Table of Contents:
  • The age of indentity: The contemporary need to be ourselves
  • Turning lifestyles into identities: The distinction between two self-narratives
  • The refiguring identity's narrative model
  • The five virtues of the refiguring identity
  • From openness to exposure
  • From consumer creativity to imagination
  • From instrumental reason to practical wisdom
  • From surrender to acceptance
  • From consumer desire to hope
  • The case of limit-experiences: Refiguring identity at the limits
  • Constructing a dialogue between the consumerist lifestyles and the refiguring identity model.