Tag: Selfhood

Free Download Mark C. Taylor, "Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0823220583 | PDF | pages: 320 | 33.7 mb
Taylor (humanities and religion, Williams College, Massachusetts) reconsiders the two philosophers based on the notion that all modern philosophy lies between the poles of their thought. He has added a new introduction to the 1980 original edition.

Free Download Anita C. Galuschek, "Selfhood and Recognition: Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality "
English | ISBN: 1785336495 | 2017 | 198 pages | PDF | 1377 KB
The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other. Touching on humanity as porous, fractal, dividual, and relational, the author sheds new light on the nature of selfhood, recognition, relationality, and human life.

Free Download Clara Neary, "Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood: The Story of His Experiments with Truth"
English | ISBN: 3031227859 | 2023 | 121 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book addresses the topics of autobiography, self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiographical work The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927, 1929). Gandhi remains an elusive figure, despite the volumes of literature written on him in the seven decades since his assassination. Scholars and biographers alike agree that "no work on his life has portrayed him in totality" (Desai, 2009), and, although "arguably the most popular figure of the first half of the twentieth century" and "one of the most eminent luminaries of our time," Gandhi the individual remains "as much an enigma as a person of endless fascination" (Murrell, 2008). Yet there has been relatively little scholarly engagement with Gandhi’s autobiography, and published output has largely been concerned with mining the text for its biographical details, with little concern for how Gandhi represents himself. The author addresses this gap in the literature, while also considering Gandhi as a writer. This book provides a close reading of the linguistic structure of the text with particular focus upon Gandhi’s self-representation, drawing on a cognitive stylistic framework for analysing linguistic representations of selfhood (Emmott 2002). It will be of interest to stylisticians, cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and scholars in related fields such as Indian literature and postcolonial studies.

Free Download Andrew M. Jampol-Petzinger, "Deleuze, Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Selfhood "
English | ISBN: 1474476082 | 2022 | 184 pages | EPUB | 370 KB
Andrew Jampol-Petzinger pursues Gilles Deleuze’s significantly under-discussed interpretation of Søren Kierkegaard. He presents a view of ethics and selfhood that responds to theories of moral judgment and selfhood based on stable, substance-orientated forms of identity. Starting from their common rejection of these categories of moral judgement, and looking at their shared projects of ethics as fundamentally a matter of becoming who one is, Jampol-Petzinger argues for a conception of normativity that privileges ideas of growth and self-overcoming while also recognizing the importance and need for values adequate to leading a liveable life.

Free Download A. A. Long, "Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Heraclitus to Descriptioninus"
English | ISBN: 0198803397 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A. A. Long presents fourteen essays on the themes of selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy. The discussion ranges over seven centuries of innovative thought, starting with Heraclitus’ injunction to listen to the cosmic logos, and concluding with Descriptioninus’ criticism of those who make embodiment essential to human identity. For the Greek philosophers the notion of a rational self was bound up with questions about divinity and happiness called eudaimonia, meaning a god-favoured life or a life of likeness to the divine. While these questions are remote from current thought, Long also situates the book’s themes in modern discussions of the self and the self’s normative relation to other people and the world at large. Ideas and behaviour attributed to Socrates and developed by Plato are at the book’s centre. They are preceded by essays that explore general facets of the soul’s rationality. Later chapters bring in salient contributions made by Aristotle and Stoic philosophers. All but one of these pieces has been previously published in periodicals or conference volumes, but the author has revised and updated everything. The book is written in a style that makes it accessible to many kinds of reader, not only professors and graduate students but also anyone interested in the history of our identity as rational animals.

Free Download Karen Michele Chandler, "Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children’s Narratives about Slavery and Freedom "
English | ISBN: 1496845943 | 2024 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary families and obscure the systematic working of racism. Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children’s Narratives about Slavery and Freedom examines Black-authored historical novels and films for children that counter this distortion and depict creative means by which ordinary African Americans survived slavery and racism in early America.

Free Download Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society"
English | ISBN: 0197600921 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 12 MB

Free Download Janice Richardson, "Law, Selfhood and Feminist Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 0367279797 | 2023 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 635 KB + 6 MB
At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and ‘selves’ continue to be treated as monstrous aberrations from the ‘ideal’ figure or norm.