A New Age of Personality

An Essay on the Psychology of our Times

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4855475
AutoresMarcel Gauchet (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen60
Número1
Páginas23-41
Fecha de publicación2000-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513600060000004
OpenAlexW2028455079
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

The present historical epoch seems to be characterized by a general trend towards pacification. Conflicts of all kinds - internal and external, personal and collective - are becoming less central to social life. This reflects a new type of individualism, rather than further progress of individualism in the classical sense. Contemporary individuals are losing the sense of commitment and continuity that was needed to sustain conflicts. This development has far-reaching effects on the very nature of the social bond and raises questions about its future; the radicalization of individualism may find expression in overtly anti-statist attitudes, but it inevitably entails a latent strengthening of the state as a necessary link between desocialized individuals. The logic of contemporary hyperindividualism is also reflected in the growth of new pathological symptoms, related to identity problems as well as to the condition of solitude in society

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Individualism · Personality · Political science · Radicalization · Sociology · Solitude · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Interdisciplinary Studies: Technology, Society, and Humanities · Law · Philosophy · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychology · Social Psychology