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Self-knowledge and the self / David A. Jopling.
Van Pelt Library BF697.5.S43 J66 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jopling, David A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self.
- Self-perception.
- Self-knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 193 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Summary:
- Can we ever really answer the question, "who am I"? In this remarkably clear, fresh and persuasive treatment of a long-standing philosophical question, Jopling argues that we can acquire self-knowledge, but that our attempts to know ourselves shape and alter the very self that is their object; that is, the self we come to know is dependent on how it is known. Self-knowledge is a dynamic and self-transformative process which is only possible in interaction with others.
- Contents:
- Three Traditions 1
- Four Philosophical Psychologies 10
- Self-Knowledge in Literature and Drama 21
- Zasetsky 26
- Chapter 2 Approaches to the Self 31
- Judgment Day 32
- Personality Profiles 37
- Self-Concepts 45
- The Storied Self 47
- The Somatic Sense of Self 55
- The Self in Question 57
- Chapter 3 Self-Detachment and Self-Knowledge 59
- Transparency 59
- Reflective Detachment 63
- Alternative Self-Descriptions 66
- Freedom, Self-Awareness, and Moral Responsibility 70
- Detachment Revisited 76
- Chapter 4 A Mystery in Broad Daylight 81
- Identity and "Being in Question" 81
- The Fundamental Project 86
- The Radical Choice of Self 90
- Self-Knowledge and the Fundamental Project 93
- Autobiographical Blind Spots 99
- A "Founded Mode of Being" 104
- Chapter 5 "The Man without Qualities": Irony, Contingency, and the Lightness of Being 109
- The Self "Well Lost" 109
- Ironism and Self-Enlargement 117
- Authenticity and Self-Purification 121
- The Most Disenchanting of Sciences 124
- Playing with Identity 127
- The Lightness of Being in Time 131
- Radical Choice Revisited 133
- Chapter 6 Dialogic Self-Knowing 135
- Solitary Selves 135
- Like-Minded Communities 139
- Consensus and Intersubjective Validation 142
- Dialogic Encounter 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415926890
- 0415926904
- OCLC:
- 43287626
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