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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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.