Author
Dan Zahavi
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
November 2016
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Author
Dan Zahavi
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
November 2016
£31.99
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Self and Other
Today's Price £31.99
Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, what does that tell us about the nature of selfhood and social cognition? Does a strong emphasis on the first-personal character of consciousness prohibit a satisfactory account of intersubjectivity or is the former rather a necessary requirement for the latter? Engaging with debates and findings in classical phenomenology, in philosophy of mind and in various empirical disciplines, Dan Zahavi's new book Self and Other offers answers to these questions. Discussing such diverse topics as self-consciousness, phenomenal externalism, mindless coping, mirror self-recognition, autism, theory of mind, embodied simulation, joint attention, shame, time-consciousness, embodiment, narrativity, self-disorders, expressivity and Buddhist no-self accounts, Zahavi argues that any theory of consciousness that wishes to take the subjective dimension of our experiential life serious must endorse a minimalist notion of self.
At the same time, however, he also contends that an adequate account of the self has to recognize its multifaceted character, and that various complementary accounts must be integrated, if we are to do justice to its complexity. Thus, while arguing that the most fundamental level of selfhood is not socially constructed and not constitutively dependent upon others, Zahavi also acknowledges that there are dimensions of the self and types of self-experience that are other-mediated. The final part of the book exemplifies this claim through a close analysis of shame.
Author
Dan Zahavi
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
November 2016
Weight
458g
Page Count
296
Dimensions
157 x 233 x 20 mm
ISBN
9780198776673
ISBN-10
0198776675
Eden Code
4563325
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Author/Creator: Dan Zahavi
ISBN: 9780198776673
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: November 2016
Weight: 458g
Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 20 mm
Eden Code: 4563325