Styling the Self: Ethics and Aesthetics in Absolute Capitalism (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory) - Hardcover

Han, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367697157 ISBN 13: 9780367697150

Verlag: Routledge, 2026

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This volume examines the turn inwards, towards matters of the self, in an era characterised by suffering, destruction and death resulting from large-scale structural problems including global pandemics, economic inequality and climate change. As uncertainty on a large scale has begotten attempts at certainty on smaller ones, new social and cultural phenomena have emerged that can be understood and analyzed as new ways of crafting selfhood. With a particular focus on ‘practices of style’ that reflect both aesthetic as well as ethical qualities, the author considers practices stemming from growing interest in sustainability, the popularity of tidying up and the ideology of minimalism, digital detoxing, discourses around ‘self-care’ and the growing digital communities of menswear, style and wellness. An exploration of the trend towards constant reinvention of the self without the scaffolding scripts of religion and the state, Styling the Self will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and social theory with interests in culture, consumption and lifestyle.

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Sam Han is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of (Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty, Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity, Understanding Tragedy: On the Importance of the Concept for Social Science and Navigating Technomedia: Caught in the Web; the co-author of Digital Culture and Religion in Asia; and the co-editor of The Race of Time: A Charles Lemert Reader.

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With a focus on ‘practices of style’ that reflect both aesthetic as well as ethical qualities, this book examines the emergent forms of contemporary self-making and identity-formation as a turn inwards, towards certainty, in an era characterised by wider uncertainty occasioned by large-scale structural problems.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367697157
• ISBN 13: 9780367697150
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 126
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Papendorpseweg 99; Utrecht; 3528 BJ; Niederlande