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I, Me, Mine - Back to Kant, and Back Again (Hardcover)
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I, Me, Mine - Back to Kant, and Back Again (Hardcover)
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Beatrice Longuenesse presents an original exploration of our
understanding of ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves. In
the first part of the book she discusses contemporary analyses of
our use of 'I' in language and thought, and compares them to Kant's
account of self-consciousness, especially the type of
self-consciousness expressed in the proposition 'I think.'
According to many contemporary philosophers, necessarily, any
instance of our use of 'I' is backed by our consciousness of our
own body. For Kant, in contrast, 'I think' just expresses our
consciousness of being engaged in bringing rational unity into the
contents of our mental states. In the second part of the book,
Longuenesse analyzes the details of Kant's view and argues that
contemporary discussions in philosophy and psychology stand to
benefit from Kant's insights into self-consciousness and the unity
of consciousness. The third and final part of the book outlines
similarities between Kant's view of the structure of mental life
grounding our uses of 'I' in 'I think' and in the moral 'I ought
to,' on the one hand; and Freud's analysis of the organizations of
mental processes he calls 'ego' and 'superego' on the other hand.
Longuenesse argues that Freudian metapsychology offers a path to a
naturalization of Kant's transcendental view of the mind. It offers
a developmental account of the normative capacities that ground our
uses of 'I,' which Kant thought could not be accounted for without
appealing to a world of pure intelligences, distinct from the
empirical, natural world of physical entities.
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