Sketching a new portrait of the human self in this
thought-provoking book, leading American philosopher Calvin O.
Schrag challenges bleak deconstructionist and postmodernist views
of the self as something ceaselessly changing, without origin or
purpose. Discussing the self in new vocabulary, he depicts an
action-oriented self defined by the ways in which it communicates.
The self, says Schrag, is open to understanding through its
discourse, its actions, its being with other selves, and its
experience of transcendence.
In his discussion, Schrag responds critically to both modernists
and postmodernists, avoiding what he calls the modernists'
overdetermination of unity and identity and the postmodernists'
self-enervating pluralism. He agrees with postmodernist attacks on
both the classical theory of the self as a metaphysical substance
and the modern epistemological construal of the self as transparent
mind, yet he maintains that jettisoning the self as understood in
these terms does not mean jettisoning it altogether. The self as
subject is not dead, nor are the constitutive features of
self-formation and self-understanding. In addressing the role of
culture in the dynamics of self-formation, the author offers a
critique of Max Weber's and Jurgen Habermas's view of modernity as
a radical differentiation of three cultural spheres: science,
morality, and art; he adds religion as a legitimate fourth cultural
sphere. The overview of Schrag's philosophy that The Self after
Postmodernity provides will appeal to readers with an interest in
literary criticism and religion as well as philosophy.
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