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Self and other
Exploring subjectivity, empathy, and shame
Abstract
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.
Details | Table of Contents
Genesis and structure
pp.ix
pp.3-94
pp.10-24
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590681.003.0002pp.95-196
pp.95-98
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590681.003.0008pp.197-250
pp.251-274
pp.275-277
pp.278-280
Publication details
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place: Oxford
Year: 2014
Pages: 280, xiv
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590681.001.0001
ISBN (hardback): 9780199590681
Full citation:
Zahavi Dan (2014) Self and other: Exploring subjectivity, empathy, and shame. Oxford, Oxford University Press.