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Our Practices, Our Selves - Or, What it Means to Be Human (Paperback)
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Our Practices, Our Selves - Or, What it Means to Be Human (Paperback)
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This enjoyable book, written in an engaging, colloquial voice, is
that rare kind of introduction to philosophy that both (1) shows
that philosophy is a distinctive form of lively conceptual activity
rather than an inert body of dusty doctrines and (2) makes a
contribution to the field it introduces by showing the importance
of our multifarious human practices to questions of selfhood and
identity. The fundamental thesis of the book--that practices are
constitutive of the self in a deep way that has not been
sufficiently recognized--is explored through wide-ranging examples,
including global-technological capitalism, religious authority and
the creationism debate, multiculturalism, psychoanalytical
explanation, jazz, baseball, political activism, cooking, and many
others. These diverse strands, although they obviously come from
far and wide, are convincingly woven into a coherent and
illuminating large-scale pattern.This book shows the student, the
general reader, or anyone interested in what philosophy--itself a
practice--how hard, clear thinking promotes human understanding and
how helpful analytical thought can be to numerous hotly debated
issues. Readers are given the conceptual tools and philosophical
equipment they need as the book progresses, and they will know that
they are in the hands of an excellent, confidence-inspiring teacher
of the subject. -Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College
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