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Self and Other - Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame (Hardcover)
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Self and Other - Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame (Hardcover)
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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.
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