Self-fulfilment can positively appropriate globalised influences rather than retreat

Evidence

5. A concern for self-fulfilment, which is not just a narcissistic defence against an externally threatening world, over which individuals have little control, but also in part a positive appropriation of circumstances in which globalised influences impinge upon everyday life. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 298

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters Lasch’s narcissism thesis and connects to the reader’s question about whether self-identity work is subversive or pathetic — reinforces Giddens’s position that Stevens’s deference is the wrong, passive mode. — connects to: Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371; Social fragmentation liberates while cultural fragmentation frustrates self-development — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 104; Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341 (+3 more)

Related

• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life (similarity 0.81)
• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation (similarity 0.81)
• Social fragmentation liberates while cultural fragmentation frustrates self-development (similarity 0.80)
• Self-identity is now a reflexive project conducted amid abstract systems (similarity 0.80)
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.80)
• Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.80)
• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation #corroborates (0.90) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371
• Individualization loosens ties with the near to enable ties with the distant #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 603
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them #corroborates (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341
• Social fragmentation liberates while cultural fragmentation frustrates self-development #corroborates (0.65) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 104