The future of post-human personality : a preface to a new theory of normality and abnormality / Peter Baofu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baofu, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Individuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge International Science Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book takes up the difficult challenge to provide an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of personality, especially in relation to normal and abnormal characters-while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other).

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Part One: Introduction

Part Two: ormality

Part Three: Abnormality

Part Four: Conclusion

TABLES

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

PART ONE Introduction

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION-THE PERPLEXITY OF PERSONALITY

The Political Correctness of a Fascinating Idea

Different Definitions of Normality and Abnormality

Different Definitions of Normality

Different Definitions of Abnormality

The Varieties of Normal and Abnormal Characters

The Varieties of Normal Characters

The Varieties of Abnormal Characters

The Theoretical Debate

The Mental Argument

The Natural Argument

The Social Argument

The Cultural Argument

The Contrarian Argument

The Contrarian Theory of Personality

Theory and Meta-Theory

A Unified Theory of Everything

The Logic of Existential Dialectics

The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)

The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic)

The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics)

The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics)

Sophisticated Methodological Holism

Chapter Outline

Some Clarifications

In Conversation with My Previous Books

Case Studies and Examples

Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis

Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations

The Use of Neologisms

PART TWO. Normality

CHAPTER 2 NORMALITY AND ITS DOUBLE SIDES

The Convenience of Normality

Normality and the Mind

Normality, and the Social Psychology of Conformity

Normality, and the Biopsychology of Conformity

Normality and nature

Normality, and the Stoic Conformity with the Universe

Normality, and the Implications of Animal Conformity

Normality and Society

Normality, and the Politics of Thought Reform.

Conformity, and the Sociopolitics of Heteronormativity

Normality and Culture

Normality, and Cultural Assimilation

The Mediocrity of Normality

PART THREE Abnormality

CHAPTER 3 ABNORMALITY AND ITS DUAL FACES

The Functionality of Abnormality

Abnormality and the Mind

Abormality, and the Discourse on Mental Disability

Abnormality, and the Controversy about Mental Disorders

Abnormality and Nature

Abnormality, and the Chemicals in Psychiatric Medication

Abnormality, and the Disharmony with the Cosmos

Abnormality and Society

Abnormality, and the Social Structure of Suicide

Abnormality, and the Institution of Involuntary Commitment

Abnormality and Culture

Abnormality, and the Variation of Cultural Traditions

The Dysfunctionality of Normality

PART FOUR Conclusion

CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION -THE FUTURE OF PERSONALITY

The False Dichotomy of Normality and Abnormality

Other Relevant Principles

1st Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle

2nd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle

3rd Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle

4th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle

5th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle

6th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle

7th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle

8th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle

9th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle

10th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle

11th Thesis: The Post-Human Remolding

Beyond Normality and Abnormality

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-01220-0

9786613012203

1-907343-13-X

OCLC:

713689514