The social self
by Bakhurst, David Sypnowich, Christine
In this accessible and broad-ranging book, a group of internationally renowned scholars examines the senses in which we are 'social selves' whose very identities are intimately bound up with the communities and cultures in which we live. Drawings on Wittgenstein, Marx, Foucault, Bakhtin, Gilligan and MacIntyre (among others), the chapters show the diversity of influences that have shaped this exciting and controversial issue. The Social Self will be invaluable for students and academics through…
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- Full title :The social self / edited by David Bakhurst and Christine Sypnowich.
Summary
In this accessible and broad-ranging book, a group of internationally renowned scholars examines the senses in which we are 'social selves' whose very identities are intimately bound up with the communities and cultures in which we live. Drawings on Wittgenstein, Marx, Foucault, Bakhtin, Gilligan and MacIntyre (among others), the chapters show the diversity of influences that have shaped this exciting and controversial issue. The Social Self will be invaluable for students and academics throughout the social sciences and the humanities.
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- Publication Date:1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):SAGE
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:vii, 184 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0803975961, 080397597X, 9780803975965, 9780803975972
- oclc:ocm33404129
- LC Classification:HM251
- Dewey Decimal:302
Table of Contents
Problems of the social self / David Bakhurst and Christine Sypnowich -- Meaning and self in cultural perspective / Jerome Bruner -- Wittgenstein and social being / David Bakhurst -- What a Vygotskian perspective can contribute to contemporary philosophy of language / Ellen Watson -- The Soviet self : a personal reminiscence / Felix Mikhailov -- Death in Utopia : Marxism and the mortal self / Christine Sypnowich -- The social self in political theory : the communitarian critique of the liberal subject / Stephen Mulhall and Adam Swift -- The gendered self / Diana Coole -- Becoming women/women becoming : film and the social construction of gender / Helene Keyssar -- Why multiple personality tells us something about the self/mind/person/subject/soul/consciousness / Ian Hacking.
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