Mask: Identity strategies. Stein O.

In the book of a representative of the St. Petersburg school of philosophy, O. A. Stein, a mask was investigated as a visual and verbal image included in the system of social communication. The mask is a construct of the consciousness of another in relation to the individual and sets the behavioral scheme for compliance with personal and collective identity. The history of the mask is represented by a polytheistic mytho-ritual archaic, a courteous culture of etiquette and a modern culture of information consumption. The mask is considered as a holistic image of the face, body and social signs carried to the surface in order to build a strategy of attitude to another. The book will be interesting to professional philosophers and psychologists, students and graduate students of humanitarian specialties, as well as a wide circle of readers.