Download or read book Troubled Identity and the Modern World written by L. Donskis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms 'the troubled identity', that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. Through an identity-building-and-shifting process, argues Donskis, we can move from political majority to cultural minority, or the other way around.