Controversies and Subjectivity.

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Title: Controversies and Subjectivity.
Description: This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of'I'and'self'. From both theoretical and historical viewpoints, several of the contributors show how different and incompatible perspectives on the subject can help us understand today's world, its habits, style, power relations, and attitudes. For this purpose, use is made of insights in a broad range of disciplines, such as sociology, psychoanalysis, pragm.
Authors: BARROTTA, Pierluigi and Marcelo DASCAL (eds.)
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Conflict (Psychology), Subjectivity
Categories: PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of'I'and'self'. From both theoretical and historical viewpoints, several of the contributors show how different and incompatible perspectives on the subject can help us understand today's world, its habits, style, power relations, and attitudes. For this purpose, use is made of insights in a broad range of disciplines, such as sociology, psychoanalysis, pragm.
ISBN:9789027218810
9789027294258