The Postmodern Self and the Problem of Developing a Democratic Mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11070922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roland Reichenbach (0000-0001-6879-3981, University of Fribourg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-237 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Research in Social Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-3104 • E-ISSN: 2163-1654 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00933104.1998.10505845 |
| OpenAlex | W2031599134 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article examines the relationship between self-construction and the search for the self as problems in the postmodern condition and discusses possible consequences for the development of the “democratic mind.” It is argued that modernity paradoxically stands for both, the notion of a consistent self, which seem necessary with regard to moral claims in democratic forms of life, and, at the same time, for the notion of a non-consistent and de-centered plural self that can be regarded as the psychological counterpart of the “external” (moral and non-moral) pluralism of modern societies. These different notions of the self are then described by means of two metaphors, the (modern) “master of the self” and the (postmodern) “language game player.” The paper closes with a discussion on the problems of the self in appreciating the values of democratic forms of life and to get access to public life under the conditions of (post) modern mass societies
Aesthetics · Democracy · Epistemology · Late modernity · Modernity · Plural · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Self · Social science · Sociology · Human Behavior and Motivation · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity
Postmodernism and Education
Chapter Six. From the Native's Point of View
Social representations
The Encyclopedia of philosophy
The culture of narcissism
Modernity and self-identity
Discourse Dynamics (Psychology Revivals)
Freedom to Learn
The Fall of Public Man
Modernity and Self-Identity
Demokratietheorien
Postmodernism and subjectivity
The Human Condition
Writing and Difference
The Embodied Mind
On noble motives and pedagogical Kitsch
Social Psychology of Self-Referent Behavior
Philosophical investigations
Development and validation of ego-identity status
From the Native's Point of View
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2015 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |