[PDF] Culture And Self eBook

Author : Sangeetha Menon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 981105777X

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This volume brings together the primary challenges for 21st century cognitive sciences and cultural neuroscience in responding to the nature of human identity, self, and evolution of life itself. Through chapters devoted to intricate but focused models, empirical findings, theories, and experiential data, the contributors reflect upon the most exciting possibilities, and debate upon the fundamental aspects of consciousness and self in the context of cultural, philosophical, and multidisciplinary divergences and convergences. Such an understanding and the ensuing insights lie in the cusp of philosophy, neurosciences, psychiatry, and medical humanities. In this volume, the editors and contributors explore the foundations of human thinking and being and discuss both evolutionary/cultural embeddedness, and the self-orientation, of consciousness, keeping in mind questions that bring in the interdisciplinary complexity of issues such as the emergence of consciousness, relation between healing and agency, models of altered self, how cognition impacts the social self, experiential primacy as the hallmark of consciousness, and alternate epistemologies to understand these interdisciplinary puzzles.

Author : John T. Lysaker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 025300022X

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How do I live a good life, one that is deeply personal and sensitive to others? John T. Lysaker suggests that those who take this question seriously need to reexamine the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In philosophical reflections on topics such as genius, divinity, friendship, and reform, Lysaker explores "self-culture" or the attempt to remain true to one's deepest commitments. He argues that being true to ourselves requires recognition of our thoroughly dependent and relational nature. Lysaker guides readers from simple self-absorption toward a more fulfilling and responsive engagement with the world.

Author : J. Patrick Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351956655

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Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside of sociology, whilst failing to present empirical studies which centre on the concept itself. Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society addresses the problems surrounding this concept, offering a sociological analysis of it for the first time in order to provide readers in the social and cultural sciences with a clear conceptualization of authenticity and with a survey of original empirical studies focused on its experience, negotiation, and social relevance at the levels of self, culture and specific social settings.

Author : Douglas B. Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0429969716

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Traditional scholars of philosophy and religion, both East and West, often place a major emphasis on analyzing the nature of "the self." In recent decades, there has been a renewed interest in analyzing self, but most scholars have not claimed knowledge of an ahistorical, objective, essential self free from all cultural determinants. The contributors of this volume recognize the need to contextualize specific views of self and to analyze such views in terms of the dynamic, dialectical relations between self and culture. An unusual feature of this book is that all of the chapters not only focus on traditions and individuals, East and West, but include as primary emphases comparative philosophy, religion, and culture, reinforcing individual and cultural creativity. Each chapter brings specific Eastern and Western perspectives into a dynamic, comparative relation. This comparative orientation emphasizes our growing sense of interrelatedness and interdependency.

Author : Richard A. Shweder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 1984-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521318310

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This book examines the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self, and emotion in culture.

Author : Qi Wang
Publisher :
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199737835

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This book traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of the autobiographical self - the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the family and the community. It combines rigorous research, compelling theoretical insights, sensitive survey of real memories and memory conversations, and fascinating personal anecdotes to convey a message: the autobiographical self is conditioned by one's time and culture.

Author : N. Thumim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137265132

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Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums.

Author : Beverley Skeggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136499210

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Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which has both use-value to the person and exchange-value in systems of symbolic and economic exchange. The book shows how class has not disappeared, but is known and spoken in a myriad of different ways, always working through other categorisations of nation, race, gender and sexuality and across different sites: through popular culture, political rhetoric and academic theory. In particular attention is given to how new forms of personhood are being generated through mechanisms of giving value to culture, and how what we come to know and assume to be a 'self' is always a classed formation. Analysing four processes: of inscription, institutionalisation, perspective-taking and exchange relationships, it challenges recent debates on reflexivity, risk, rational-action theory, individualisation and mobility, by showing how these are all reliant on fixing some people in place so that others can move.

Author : Lala Har Dayal
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8172242832

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Man S Personality Needs Growth And Development In Its Four Different Aspects Namely: Intellectual, Physical, Aesthetic And Ethical. Through These Four Facets Of Life, The Author Disseminates The Message Of Rationalism For The Young Men And Women Of All Countries. These Short Hints On Self-Culture Addresses You To Make Best Use Of Your Life And Helps You To Build Your Personality As A Free And Cultured Citizen.