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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David A Jopling |
| ISBN: | 0415926890 9780415926898 0415926904 9780415926904 |
| OCLC Number: | 43287626 |
| Description: | ix, 193 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Three Traditions -- Four Philosophical Psychologies -- Self-Knowledge in Literature and Drama -- Zasetsky -- Approaches to the Self -- Judgment Day -- Personality Profiles -- Self-Concepts -- The Storied Self -- The Somatic Sense of Self -- The Self in Question -- Self-Detachment and Self-Knowledge -- Transparency -- Reflective Detachment -- Alternative Self-Descriptions -- Freedom, Self-Awareness, and Moral Responsibility -- Detachment Revisited -- A Mystery in Broad Daylight -- Identity and "Being in Question" -- The Fundamental Project -- The Radical Choice of Self -- Self-Knowledge and the Fundamental Project -- Autobiographical Blind Spots -- A "Founded Mode of Being" -- "The Man without Qualities": Irony, Contingency, and the Lightness of Being -- The Self "Well Lost" -- Ironism and Self-Enlargement -- Authenticity and Self-Purification -- The Most Disenchanting of Sciences -- Playing with Identity -- The Lightness of Being in Time -- Radical Choice Revisited -- Dialogic Self-Knowing -- Solitary Selves -- Like-Minded Communities -- Consensus and Intersubjective Validation -- Dialogic Encounter. |
| Responsibility: | David A. Jopling. |
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"Jopling's discussion is carried on with remarkable clarity. His presentation of the diverse philosophical positions is balanced and fair. . . . Self-Knowledge and the Self is a work of excellent, sound scholarship, a most significant contribution."<br>-Hazel Barnes, author of "Sartre and Flaubert <br>"Jopling's book is the most sustained and serious contemporary philosophical reflection on the Delphic injunction "Know thyself" of which I am aware. Drawing on literature and psychotherapy as well as solid argumentation, it gently but persuasively exposes inadequacies in the individualistic theories of Hampshire, Sartre, and Rorty and sketches the advantages of a more dialogic approach. Ideally, readers should come away not only knowing what it means to know oneself, but also, in some respects, actually knowing themselves better!."<br>-William L. McBride, author of "Social and Political Philosophy <br>"In this impressive survey, Jopling not only provides incisive critiques of the major contemporary theories of self-knowledge but also introduces a significant alternative approach, one that stresses the role of dialogue and communication."<br>-Ulric Neisser, editor of" Remembering Reconsidered <br> Read more...
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