The social self
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The social self
(Inquiries in social construction)
Sage Publications, 1995
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Much discussion in recent years has centred on the status of the self, identity and subjectivity in the light of powerful arguments about the social origins of personhood. The Social Self presents many dimensions of the debate, spanning psychology, philosophy, politics and feminist theory, and provides a critical overview of the key themes involved.
The internationally renowned contributors examine the senses in which we are `social selves' whose very identities are intimately bound up with the communities and cultures in which we live. Drawing 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction - David Bakhurst and Christine Sypnowich
Problems of the Social Self
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 - Felix Mikhailov
A Personal Reminiscence
Death in Utopia - Christine Sypnowich
Marxism and the Mortal Self
The Social Self in Political Theory - Stephen Mulhall and Adam Swift
The Communitarian Critique of the Liberal Subject
The Gendered Self - Diana Coole
Becoming Women/Women Becoming - Helene Keyssar
Film and the Social Construction of Gender
Why Multiple Personality Tells Us Nothing about the Self/Mind/Person/Subject/Soul/Consciousness - Ian Hacking
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