Book
Oxford University Press, Oxford
2014
280, xiv Pages
ISBN 9780199590681
Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, what does that tell us about the nature of selfhood and social cognition? Does a strong emphasis on the first-personal character of consciousness prohibit a satisfactory account of intersubjectivity or isthe former rather a necessary requirement for the latter? Engaging with debates and findings in classical phenomenology, in philosophy of mind and in various empirical disciplines, Dan Zahavi's new book Self and Other offers answers to these questions.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590681.001.0001
Full citation:
Zahavi, D. (2014). Self and other: Exploring subjectivity, empathy, and shame, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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