This book seeks to clarify the precise structure of
self-consciousness and self-determination and elucidates their
significance for our philosophical understanding of self-knowledge
and human agency. The analysis challenges traditional models of
theoretical self-knowledge and practical self-relation and
elaborates an account of rationally grounded responsibility that
jointly fulfills the demands of autonomy and
authenticity.Tugendhat's study is a unique synthesis of the
contemporary Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding
concern for classical philosophical problems. It brings the methods
of linguistic analysis to bear on such epistemological, moral, and
metaphysical issues as the meaning and interconnections of
self-knowledge, ego identity, rational self-understanding, and
freedom of the will.In this context, the views of Wittgenstein,
Heidegger, Mead, and Hegel are searchingly examined. The
philosophical testimony of Kierkegaard, Freud, Habermas, and others
is also presented and weighed.Self-Consciousness and
Self-Determination is based on a series of lectures given at
Heidelberg. Ernst Tugendhat is currently Professor of Philosophy at
the Freie Universitat in Berlin. The book is included in the series
Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas
McCarthy."
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