The Conceptual Self in Context
The Conceptual Self in Context
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USDFor years, thinkers have debated the meaning and origin of the self-concept. Among contested issues are how people in different cultures can have sharply different concepts of self, what can be known about the self-concepts of depressives and schizophrenics, how meditation can affect the sense of self, and if there is an inner "self of selves," as James once suggested. In this collection, a prestigious group of psychologists, anthropologists, and philosophers addresses these topics and presents some surprising answers. This is the third and last of the Emory Symposia organized around Ulric Neisser's cognitive theory of self-knowledge; it goes beyond The Perceived Self and The Remembering Self to deal with some of the oldest--as well as some of the newest--psychological and philosophical questions surrounding the concept of self.
- Focuses on the problem of the self, one of the most hotly debated issues in social science
- Broadly interdisciplinary, with contributions from psychology, linguistics, anthropology and philosophy
- Well-known and highly respected Press author
Reviews & endorsements
"Neisser and Jopling's edited volume collects an intelligent, sophisticated, and interdisciplinary set of essays on the self written by a distinguished group of psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, and philosophers....there is much here of interest to sociologists of the self. The Conceptual Self in Context covers a lot of ground in its 13 thoughtful and well-written chapters. This book should be read by sociologists interested in the self." Viktor Gecas, Contemporary Sociology
Product details
June 2010Paperback
9780521153607
296 pages
230 × 152 × 18 mm
0.47kg
Available
Table of Contents
- List of contributions
- Part I. The Self in Culture:
- 1. Concepts and self-concepts Ulric Neisser
- 2. Selfways: diversity in modes of cultural participation Hazel Rose Markus, Patricia R. Mullally, and Shinobu Kitayama
- 3. Depression and the cultural context of the self-serving bias Linda J. Koenig
- 4. How is the self conceptualized? Variations among cultures Fredrik Barth
- 5. The internal structure of the self George Lakoff
- 6. Why Lakoff needs psychoanalysis: on cultural ambivalence and concepts of the self Charles W. Nuckolls
- 7. Children's self-awareness and self-understanding in cultural context Daniel Hart and Suzanne Fegley
- 8. Situating the self in interpersonal space John F. Kihlstrom, Lori A. Marchese-Foster, and Stanley B. Klein
- 9. The self as socially constructed: a commentary Robyn Fivush and Janine Buckner
- Part II. Experiencing the Self:
- 10. Mindfulness mediation and the private (?) self Eleanor Rosch
- 11. The consciousness machine: self and subjectivity in schizophrenia and modern culture Louis A. Sass
- Part III. Philosophical Perspectives on the Self:
- 12. The self and contemporary theories of ethics Sheila Mason
- 13. A 'self of selves'? David A. Jopling
- Author index
- Subject index.
