Identity and Difference: Contemporary Debates on the Self

✍ Scribed by Rafael Winkler (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 290
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provides a persuasive account of how identity and difference factor in the debate on the self in the humanities. It explores this topic by applying the question to fields such as philosophy, cultural studies, politics and race studies. Key themes discussed in this collection include authenticity in Michel de Montaigne’s essays, the limits of the narrative constitution of the self, the use and abuse of the notion of human nature in political theory and in the current political context of multiculturalism, and the feminist notion of the erotic and of sexual violence. This book will appeal to readers with an interest in new perspectives on the self within the humanities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Personal Self in the Phenomenological Tradition....Pages 3-35
Persons, Characters and the Meaning of ʻNarrativeʼ....Pages 37-61
What Does Self-Deception Tell Us About the Self? A Sartrean Perspective....Pages 63-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Being My-Self? Montaigne on Difference and Identity....Pages 89-104
Specifically Human? The Limited Conception of Self-Consciousness in Theories of Reflective Endorsement....Pages 105-128
Making the Case for Political Anthropology: Understanding and Addressing the Backlash Against Liberalism....Pages 129-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The Decentred Autonomous Subject....Pages 155-175
Exploring Rape as an Attack on Erotic Goods....Pages 177-200
Making Mischief: Thinking Through Women’s Solidarity and Sexuate Difference with Luce Irigaray and Gayatri Spivak....Pages 201-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
The ‘Africanness’ of White South Africans?....Pages 235-257
Identity, Alterity and Racial Difference in Levinas....Pages 259-281
Back Matter....Pages 283-286

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of the Social Sciences;Phenomenology;Political Philosophy;Feminism;General Psychology

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