The Social Self (Inquiries in Social Construction) - Hardcover

 
9780803975965: The Social Self (Inquiries in Social Construction)

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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

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David Bakhurst and Christine Sypnowich both teach in the Department of Philosophy at Queen′s University at Kingston, Canada. David Bakhurst is author of Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy (1991) and Christine Sypnowich of The Concept of Socialist Law (1990).

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Diana Coole University of Leeds

Stephen Mulhall University of Essex

Adam Swift University of Oxford

Ellen Watson University of Queensland

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ISBN 10:  080397597X ISBN 13:  9780803975972
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1995
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