Description: This book establishes a compelling framework within which to rethink the relation between self and society, identity and power. The author has provided a remarkable contribution to the growing sociology of intimacy and selfhood.
Review Quotes: "This book does a tremendously important job of bringing the issues of morality right into the core of the self problem' thus salvaging the latter from the egocentric, hedonistic exile in which it has been kept by most recent writers."
-Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Leeds University