Lexington Books
Pages: 138
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66697-574-1 • Hardback • February 2025 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-66697-575-8 • eBook • February 2025 • $45.00 • (£35.00) (coming soon)
Robert Perinbanayagam is professor emeritus of sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Chapter1: Talking
Chapter 2: The Grammar of Identity
Chapter 3: Religion as Narrative and Drama
Chapter 4: The Narrated Self: The Talk of Astrology
Chapter 5: The Dramas of Suicide: Detailing Durkheim
Chapter 6: The Drama and Rhetoric of Forms in Games
Chapter 7: Identity: Relations, Habitats, and Artifacts
Robert Perinbanayagam’s work has given us outstanding and complex texts on the self as both social construction and reflexive agent. In this masterful new work of independent essays, he writes about the primacy of talking, drawing from three critical sources: the pragmatist philosopher G. H. Mead, the work of American literary critic Kenneth Burke, and the Russian language philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin.
— E. Doyle McCarthy, professor emerita of sociology and American studies, Fordham University