Abstract
Continental European philosophers such as Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, and Baudrillard proposed an alternative view of social reality and human subjectivity, replacing Enlightenment beliefs in rationality, synthesis, determinism, and essentialism with counter-enlightenment beliefs in irrationality, antithesis, indeterminacy, and constructionism. This late-twentieth-century indictment of beliefs in the reality of social phenomena and theories of self and identity provided a warrant for our efforts in this book to rejuvenate self and identity theory, expanded to consider social institutions, and to introduce some novel kinds of empirical explorations into these domains.
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