Self and Other
Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 November 2014
- ISBN 9780199590681
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 240x163x23 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Dan Zahavi engages with classical phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and a range of empirical disciplines to explore the nature of selfhood. He argues that the most fundamental level of selfhood is not socially constructed or dependent upon others, but accepts that certain dimensions of the self and types of self-experience are other-mediated.
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Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, what does that tell us about the nature of selfhood and social cognition? Does a strong emphasis on the first-personal character of consciousness prohibit a satisfactory account of intersubjectivity or is the former rather a necessary requirement for the latter?
Engaging with debates and findings in classical phenomenology, in philosophy of mind and in various empirical disciplines, Dan Zahavi's new book Self and Other offers answers to these questions. Discussing such diverse topics as self-consciousness, phenomenal externalism, mindless coping, mirror self-recognition, autism, theory of mind, embodied simulation, joint attention, shame, time-consciousness, embodiment, narrativity, self-disorders, expressivity and Buddhist no-self accounts, Zahavi argues that any theory of consciousness that wishes to take the subjective dimension of our experiential life serious must endorse a minimalist notion of self. At the same time, however, he also contends that an adequate account of the self has to recognize its multifaceted character, and that various complementary accounts must be integrated, if we are to do justice to its complexity. Thus, while arguing that the most fundamental level of selfhood is not socially constructed and not constitutively dependent upon others, Zahavi also acknowledges that there are dimensions of the self and types of self-experience that are other-mediated. The final part of the book exemplifies this claim through a close analysis of shame.
The book is particularly interesting for those who have been following Zahavi's voluminous and important work for some time now
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Experiential Self
Conflicting perspectives on self
Consciousness, self-consciousness, and selfhood
Transparency and anonymity
Subjectivity or selfhood
Self and diachronic unity
Pure and poor
A multidimensional account
Part II: Empathic Understanding
Subjectivity and intersubjectivity
Empathy and projection
Phenomenology of empathy
Empathy and social cognition
Subjectivity and otherness
Part II: The Interpersonal Self
The self as social object
Shame
You, me, and we
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