Archer, Margaret S.
Being Human: The Problem of Agency
- ISBN 13:
- 9780521795647
- author:
- Archer, Margaret S.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2000
- Pages:
- 333
- Genre:
- Social Science / Sociology / General
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Margaret S. Archer's Being Human: The Problem of Agency challenges prevailing views in contemporary social theory that seek to diminish human properties and powers.
The concept of humanity is under threat from postmodernist thinking, which has declared the 'Death of God' and the 'Death of Man'. Archer argues that being human depends on an interaction with the real world, where practice takes primacy over language in the emergence of human self-consciousness, thought, emotionality, and personal identity.
She contends that these aspects of humanity are prior to our acquisition of a social identity, and that it is through this interaction with the world that we develop as individuals.
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