Identity : A Reader

by Paul du Gay

• ISBN13: 9780761969167
• ISBN10: 0761969160
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-08
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation. The Identity Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students of cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and sociology. The key statements are from the work of: Louis Althusser, Jessica Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Homi K Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Ian Craib, Jacques Dérrida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Pierre Hadot, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Christopher Lasch, Isabel Menzies, Lyth, T H Marshall, Marcel Mauss, Amèlie Okensberg Rorty, Jacqueline Rose, Nikolas Rose, Michael Rustin, Kaja Silverman, Max Weber, D W Winnicott

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Figures	xi
Introduction	1	(19)
Images and principles	2	(3)
Cultural studies as a discipline?	5	(6)
Some theoretical background	11	(5)
Speaking personally	16	(4)
Questions of value - or why do cultural studies?	20	(24)
The ordinariness of culture	23	(6)
Extending the values of cultural studies	29	(8)
Towards common ground	37	(3)
Learning teaching from experience	40	(4)
The individual `in' culture	44	(23)
Absent voices	46	(6)
The problem of experience	52	(6)
Expanding the landscape of cultural research	58	(9)
Questioning the text	67	(24)
The challenge of too many texts	69	(5)
A note on structuralism and semiology	74	(2)
Textual analysis after textual proliferation	76	(7)
The future of text-related research	83	(4)
Summary	87	(4)
Beyond `cultures'	91	(23)
Cultural space: the traditional model	94	(4)
Rethinking cultural coherence	98	(6)
Working with cultural complexity	104	(6)
Summary	110	(4)
Accounting for the self	114	(20)
Beyond the death of the subject	116	(4)
Thinking the cultural through the self	120	(3)
Reflexivity	123	(3)
Accountable theory	126	(4)
Summary and wider perspectives	130	(4)
The future of cultural studies: community without closure	134	(11)
Overview of the argument	135	(2)
Visions of community	137	(4)
The future space of cultural studies	141	(4)
References	145	(17)
Index	162