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The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation

Robert Jay Lifton

3.7/5 ( ratings)

"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, the Greek sea god of many forms."—from The Protean Self

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: November 01, 1999

ISBN: 0226480984

ISBN 13: 9780226480985

The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation

Robert Jay Lifton

3.7/5 ( ratings)

"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, the Greek sea god of many forms."—from The Protean Self

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: November 01, 1999

ISBN: 0226480984

ISBN 13: 9780226480985

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