Description
Book Synopsis The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other. Touching on humanity as porous, fractal, dividual, and relational, the author sheds new light on the nature of selfhood, recognition, relationality, and human life.
Trade Review “The book offers a very differentiated examination of authoritative socio-philosophical literature, which can be helpful for anthropologists and sociologists, certainly also for psychologists, to reflect on our being in the world and to make it describable.” • Paideuma
“This is a highly original and ambitious book. [The author’s] discussion as a whole is enormously stimulating, and it represents perhaps the most sustained attempt to develop philosophical positions in dialogue with ethnographic data since the 1960s and 1970s.” · Joel Robbins, Trinity College, Cambridge
Table of Contents Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON PERSON, THE SELF, AND MUTUAL RECOGNITION
Chapter 1. Introductory Reflections on Mutual Recognition
Chapter 2. Approaching Personhood from Relationality
Chapter 3. Aspects and Problems of Empathy
PART II: DEVELOPONG RELATIONAL SELFHOOD
Chapter 4. About Being Oneself as Another
Chapter 5. The Self as Person
Chapter 6. Empathic Understanding and Agency as Mutual Recognition
Chapter 7. An Outlook to Social Appreciation
Epilogue
References
Index
