ABSTRACT
Chapters 6 and 7 both review some material on personal identity in modernity. The issue of identity is at the heart of many discussions of modernity and its impact, and it is one area in particular that gives postmodernist analyses their force. We rehearsed the argument in the previous chapter: postmodernism is not just an abstract philosophical debate, but it has applications to everyday life. Somehow the term seems to capture really effectively something of the experience of life in societies like ours at the end of the twentieth century.
