“The self in modern society is frail, brittle, fractured, fragmented – such a conception is probably the pre-eminent outlook in current discussions of the self and modernity” (Giddens 1991: 169). Discuss with reference to postmodern theories of identity

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Post modern theories of identity

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“The self in modern society is frail, brittle, fractured, fragmented – such a
conception is probably the pre-eminent outlook in current discussions of the
self and modernity” (Giddens 1991: 169). Discuss with reference to postmodern theories of identity