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Messy Self

Jennifer Rosner

The Messy Self challenges the idea -- and the ideal -- of a coherent, harmonious self. Taken together, the essays illustrate how a flourishing self is inevitably divided, ambivalent, fractured, messy -- and how the self triumphs through disorder. Written in accessible language by award-winning writers and scholars, the book offers a diversity of perspectives on the complexities of the self. With chapters on creativity, love, self-understanding, self-deception, identity, responsibility, and well-being, The Messy Self gives a range of voices to the ordinary and extraordinary divisions, fragmentations, and uncertainties that mark our everyday experience.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Jan 15th, 2007
  • Pages: 200
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.92in - 6.48in - 0.55in - 0.61lb
  • EAN: 9781594512926
  • Categories: Movements - HumanismSociology - GeneralMind & Body