After Success: Fin-de-Siecle Anxiety and Identity

After Success: Fin-de-Siecle Anxiety and Identity

by RayPahl (Author)

Synopsis

This is an accessible sociological exploration of the troubles many people face in a new age of anxiety, drawing on interviews with various successful individuals and examining the meaning of success today.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
Edition: 1
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 30 Sep 1995

ISBN 10: 0745613349
ISBN 13: 9780745613345

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a Outstanding ... the most clarifying work of sociology Ia ve ever read ... essential.a Pat Kane, New Statesman and Society a Stimulating analysis ... the great merit of Pahla s book is that his critique of post--modernist assumptions about the self and anxiety points up this misleading conflation of the soical and the psychological, and makes him aware of the misuses of a traditiona and over--socialised conceptions of the individual.a Work, Employment and Society a A characteristically bold and provocative text ... extremely interesting.a Time and Society a One of the most stimulating and relevant works I have read for a long time.a Sociology