Multiple Selves : Rethinking Identity, Self-Fashioning, and Ethics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lebow, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Self-perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.

Summary:

Multiple Selves offers an original take on identity, self-fashioning, and the problems of identity politics. It bridges the genres of political science, sociology, philosophy, and even self-help. It draws on current debates in psychology, philosophy and political science, as well as art and literature, to address a serious life issue that has important political and ethical implications. Multiple Selves denies that we have a single identity, are unique, or could use either identity or uniqueness as a source of political and ethical guidance. We are a jumble of multiple self- and social-identifications, that change in character and rise and fall in importance over time. Some of these identifications are reinforcing, others are in conflict, and all are context-dependent. The book offers a critique of identity politics, on both the right and the left. It proposes more realistic ways of self-fashioning, described as much as a social, as an individual enterprise. Recognition of our fragmented selves can produce important ethical insights and greater psychological contentment.

Contents:

Table of Contents

Chapter One Introduction

Endnotes

Chapter Two The Unsettling Self

Emergence of the Self

The Inner Self

Soul, Interiority, Self, Identity

Chapter Three Self and Order

Interiority and Order

Constraining the Inner Self

Liberating the Inner Self

Conclusion

Chapter Four Fragmented Selves

Continuity

Uniqueness

Multiple Selves

Chapter Five Making Sense of the Non-Self

Thin vs. Thick Selves

Assessment

Chapter Six The Social Self

Socialization

Memory

The Social Self

Chapter Seven Self-Fashioning

“Me” vs. “I” Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781804419038

1804419036

OCLC:

1477324191