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The Priority of the Other - Thinking and Living Beyond the Self (Hardcover)
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The Priority of the Other - Thinking and Living Beyond the Self (Hardcover)
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Psychology, having come of age under the influence of Descartes and
other champions of the thinking "I," has come to focus largely on
what happens inside the self. This perspective expanded with the
emergence of social psychology and, more recently, cultural
psychology, but by and large, the field has taken an essentially
ego-centric approach. Working from this basic premise, Mark Freeman
proposes that we adopt a more "ex-centric" perspective, one that
affirms the priority of the Other in shaping human experience. In
speaking of the "Other," Freeman refers not only to other people,
but also to those non-human "others," nature, art, God, that take
us beyond the ego and bring us closer to the world. In speaking of
the Other's priority, he insists that there is much in life that
"comes before us." By thinking and living the priority of the
Other, we can therefore become better attuned to both the world
beyond us and the world within. At the heart of Freeman's
perspective are two fundamental ideas. The first is that the Other
is the primary source of meaning, inspiration, and existential
nourishment. The second is that it is the primary source of our
ethical energies, and that being responsive and responsible to the
world beyond us is a defining feature of our humanity. There is a
tragic side to Freeman's story, however. Enraptured though we may
be by the Other, we frequently encounter it in a state of
distraction and fail to receive the nourishment and inspiration it
can provide. And responsive and responsible though we may sometimes
be, it is perilously easy to retreat inward, to the needy ego. The
challenge, therefore, is to break the spell of the "ordinary
oblivion" that characterizes much of everyday life. The Priority of
the Other can help us rise to the occasion.
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