Constituting Selves

Author : Richard E. Duus
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030390179
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Selves written by Richard E. Duus and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide a unique perspective and definition of the self in psychological literature, filling the gap between psychological science and practical implementation of interventions presented to psychotherapy clients. Combining insights from a broad range of interdisciplinary literature and multiple perspectives on the self and identity, the author seeks to determine whether an independent reality exists behind the term ‘self’ and what the nature of that reality might be. Among the topics discussed: Varieties of narrative self within a psychological frame First-personal experience and identity Ethics, responsibility, and the other Semiotics and subjectivity Constituting Selves: Psychology's Pragmatic Horizon will be of interest to clinicians and psychologists seeking to challenge preexisting conceptualizations and definitions of the self in current psychological literature.

Author : Priscilla Wald
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315476
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Americans written by Priscilla Wald and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constituting Americans" rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to fixing the words precisely of what it means to be an American

Author : Vincent Ostrom
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472084562
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerability of Democracies written by Vincent Ostrom and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the social requirements for a thriving democracy

Author : Gill Palmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110808374
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Management written by Gill Palmer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marya Schechtman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150171838X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitution of Selves written by Marya Schechtman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amnesia victim asking "Who am I?" means something different from a confused adolescent asking the same question. Marya Schechtman takes issue with analytic philosophy's emphasis on the first sort of question to the exclusion of the second. The problem of personal identity, she suggests, is usually understood to be a question about historical life. What she calls the "reidentification question" is taken to be the real metaphysical question of personal identity, whereas questions about beliefs or values and the actions they prompt, the "characterization question," are often presented as merely metaphorical. Failure to recognize the philosophical importance of both these questions, Schechtman argues, has undermined analytic philosophy's attempts at offering a satisfying account of personal identity. Considerations related to the characterization question creep unrecognized into discussions of reidentification, with the result that neither question is adequately addressed. Schechtman shows how separating the two questions allows for a more fruitful approach to the reidentification question, and she develops her own narrative account of characterization. She suggests that persons constitute their identities by developing autobiographical narratives that bear the right relation to facts about the environment, the general concept of a person, and other people's concepts of who they are.

Author : P. Mouritsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582087
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Communities written by P. Mouritsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a cross-disciplinary and conceptual perspective this book discusses the political solutions of constitutional patriotism, republicanism and liberal nationalism to cultural conflict. It places these debates in the context of real national traditions, where all civic language inevitably also reflects 'culture'.

Author : Mervyn Frost
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134484518
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Human Rights written by Mervyn Frost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global civil society and the society of democratic states are the two most inclusive and powerful global practices of our time. In this book, Frost claims that, without an understanding of the role that individual human rights play in these practices, no adequate understanding of any major feature of contemporary world politics from 'globalisation' to 'new wars' is possible. Constituting Human Rights, therefore argues that a concern with human rights is essential to the study of International Relations.

Author : Willi Goetschel
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315438
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Critique written by Willi Goetschel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's philosophy is often treated as a closed system, without reference to how it was written or how Kant arrived at its familiar form, the critique. In fact, the style of the critique seems so artless that readers think of it as an unfortunate by-product--a style of stylelessness. In Constituting Critique, Willi Goetschel shows how this apparent gracelessness was deliberately achieved by Kant through a series of writing experiments. By providing an account of the process that culminated in his three Critiques, this book offers a new perspective on Kant's philosophical thought and practice. Constituting Critique traces the stages in Kant's development to reveal how he redefined philosophy as a critical task. Following the philosopher through the experiments of his early essays, Goetschel demonstrates how Kant tests, challenges, and transforms the philosophical essay in his pursuit of a new self-reflective literary genre. From these experiments, critique emerges as the philosophical form for the critical project of the Enlightenment. The imperatives of its transcendental style, Goetschel contends, not only constitute and inform the critical moment of Kant's philosophical praxis, but also have an enduring place in post-Kantian philosophy and literature. By situating the Critiques within the context of Kant's early essays, this work will redirect the attention of Kant scholars to the origins of their form. It will also encourage contemporary critical theorists to reconsider their own practice through an engagement with its source in Kant.

Author : Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191068373
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fellow Creatures written by Christine M. Korsgaard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.

Author : Kurt Burch
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555876609
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting International Political Economy written by Kurt Burch and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International political economy is both a discipline and a set of global practices and conditions. This volume explores how the two are related, illustrating the changing character of the global political economy, as well as changing perspectives on that character.