The Self: A History by Patricia Kitcher
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Overview: The Self: A History explores the ways in which the concept of an ‘I’ or a ‘self’ has been developed and deployed at different times in the history of Western Philosophy. It also offers a striking contrast case, the ‘interconnected’ self, who appears in some expressions of African Philosophy.
The I or self seems engulfed in paradoxes. We are selves and we seem to be conscious of ourselves, yet it is very difficult to say what a self is. Although we refer to ourselves, when we try to find or locate ourselves, the I seems elusive. We can find human bodies, but we do not refer to ourselves
by referring to our bodies: we do not know that we are raising our hands or thinking hard by looking at our arms or catching a glimpse of our furrowed brows in a mirror. The essays in this volume engage many philosophical resources–metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, philosophy of psychology
and philosophy of language–to try to shed needed light on these puzzles.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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