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Ours is the era of “reinvention”. From psychotherapy to life coaching, from self-help manuals to cosmetic surgery and from corporate rebranding to urban redesign: the art of reinvention is inextricably interwoven with the lure of the next frontier, the breakthrough to the next boundary – especially boundaries of the self. In this new, updated edition of this remarkable book, Anthony Elliott examines “reinvention” as a key buzzword of our times. Through a wide-ranging and impassioned assessment, Elliott unmasks the ever-increasing globalization of reinvention – from reinvention gurus to business reinvention, from personal makeovers to corporate rebrandings. In doing so, he undertakes a serious if often amusing consideration of contemporary reinvention practices, including super-fast weight-loss diets, celebrity makeovers, body augmentations, speed dating, online relationship therapies, organizational restructurings, business downsizings and many more. The second edition of Reinvention includes a new chapter on the digital revolution and artificial intelligence, which situates reinvention within the context of technological automation. There is also a discussion of how the Covid-19 global pandemic has impacted today’s cultures of reinvention. In addition, there is a new concluding chapter in which the author develops further his theoretical account of the nature of reinvention societies. This absorbing book will continue to be the ideal introduction to reinvention for students and general readers alike. Reinvention offers a provocative and radical reflection on an issue (sometimes treated as trivial in the public sphere) that is increasingly politically urgent in terms of its personal, social and environmental consequences.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory is fully revised and updated to provide students, teachers and researchers with a comprehensive, critical guide to the major traditions of thought in social and cultural theory, as well as tracing the complex intellectual connections between these distinct but related approaches to understanding society and culture. The Handbook, edited by acclaimed sociologist Anthony Elliott, develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever before. Key social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to postmodern, psychoanalytic and post-feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised. There are also new chapters on mobilities and migrations, as well as posthumanism. The Handbook, written in a clear and direct style will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars. The extensive references and sources will direct students to areas of further study.

Il concetto di sé ha una storia remota e complessa all’interno della storia del pensiero. Nato nell’antichità greca, si è poi variamente connesso al problema ancor più remoto dell’anima, della sua natura e sostanza, per evolvere successivamente, nel contesto della civiltà cristiana, come questione della persona (anima incarnata, resurrezione della carne…) e divenire infine, nel pieno dell’età moderna e contemporanea, uno dei problemi centrali della riflessione filosofica: quello della soggettività e dell’identità personale. In epoca più recente, il sé si è riproposto sulla scena della riflessione in quella serie di campi spesso antagonisti alla filosofia costituiti dalle scienze umane. Ma non sempre i risultati di tali approcci alla questione dell’individuo sono stati chiari. Era dunque necessaria una sistemazione organica e coerente delle molteplici elaborazioni prodotte intorno a questo concetto dai vari ambiti della riflessione sociologica, psicologica, culturale oltre che ovviamente filosofica. È quanto fa nel suo libro Anthony Elliott, fornendoci introduzione alle discussioni intorno a questo tema fondamentale della contemporaneità.