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The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life
by Kenneth Gergen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Basic Books (2000-08)
ISBN: 0465071856
EAN: 9780465071852
Dewy Decimal #: 302
Paperback: 320 pages
SKU: T070827-6041
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good overall condition. Very tight binding. Book has some underlines. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
A brilliant analysis of how the realities of postmodern life are changing the way we view ourselves and our relationships.
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Accessible introduction to post-modernism
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-06-23
8 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
While many books on post-modernism obfuscate themselves in philosophical mumbo jumbo and self-referential exercises, this is a very straightforward introduction to the post-modern condition. It is also a great introduction to social construction, and the idea meaning (including the meaning of our selves) is a socially created truth rather than an absolute. Unlike a lot of books by academics, Gergen has crafeted a very readable book, that I not only learned from but enjoyed immensly.
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Multiphrenics Unite!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-02-21
4 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a very exciting and important book. Read it! "Social saturation" is a concept that needs to be looked at. "And it's okayyy."
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Bewildered, Breathless and Not Grounded
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-08-13
17 out of 21 customers found this reveiw helpful
I found this book very interesting to read. I did not find it disturbing or brilliant. Anyone who uses the internet, watches television and videos and has been jet lagged from global travel will find this an accurate account of contemporary post-modern man's global lifestyle It has the same fun reading style and spirit as T.Friedman's "The Lexus and The Olive Tree" but with a psychosocial take rather than an economic social view. This work is not grounded in biological science and the generalizations he does make from quantum science are skewed though standard post-modern mantra as far as I know. Scientists may not relate to nature or reality directly as he argues but they do relate to mathematical inferences about nature that allow them to predict with a high degree accuracy how nature works. Otherise I wouldnt' be writing this on the computer. But then Gergen himself says that the book may be just fiction or invention not a building of ideas on top of ideas. Readers interested in the topic of self-consciousness could balance Gergen's argument with A. Damasio's "The Feeling of What Happens" and G. Edelman's "Bright Air and Brilliant Fire".Both of these works attempt to ground consciousness in the body.
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un libro fantastico para entender nuestro tiempo
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-07-09
3 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Reviewer: LUIS MENDEZ (luismendez@codetel.net.do) from DOMINICAN REPUBLIC este libro es fantastico, nos descubre, nos indaga, nos hace curiosos y participes de las cosas de nuestro yo, que se encuentra atiborrado de cosa, de pensamientos, de acciones, de traumas, espero que lo lean y que lo disfruten tanto como lo he disfrutado yo. LUIS MENDEZ crazzyteacher@hotmail.com
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A Brilliant Portrait of Postmodern Culture
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-11-24
9 out of 16 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ken Gergen does an amazing job of painting the picture of fragmented contemporary in this well-written and compelling book. A definite must read for anyone interested in social psychology or technology and postmodern culture.
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