| Description |
xiii, 312 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Tribe, Nation, State: Traditional Forms of Imposed Identity -- 2. The Dreary Future of Imposed Identity: A World of 2,000 States -- 3. A Different Future: Individualism as Identity -- 4. Citizenship: An Instance of Identity as a Personal act of Self-Determination -- 5. Community Based on Personal Autonomy -- 6. Freedom of Conscience: A "Western" Value? -- 7. Constructing the Self: Name, Gender, Career and Privacy -- 8. The Individual as Emerging Rights-Holder -- 9. The Individual Against the Group -- 10. Personal Freedom, Personal Responsibility and Their Democratic Reconciliation -- 11. Summing Up |
| Summary |
"The Empowered Self: Law and Society in the Age of Individualism examines the gradual emancipation of the individual in national and international law and the changing social attitudes toward personal choice in constituting identity. It demonstrates that this desire of persons for choice is not limited to Western industrial society but a historical development powered by such independent variables as urbanization, the communications revolution, education, and economic development. Thomas Franck demonstrates that despite resistance, we are now entering the age of the individual."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Citizenship.
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Civil rights.
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Group identity.
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Human rights.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Individualism.
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Nationalism.
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| LC no. |
99045677 |
| ISBN |
0198298412 |
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