Otherness in Question
Labyrinths of the Self
Will be published approx. on 14. December 2006
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-1-59311-233-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings to social scientists a new look at how human beings are striving towards understanding others-- and through that effort--making sense of themselves. It brings together researchers from all over the World who have suggested a set of new approaches to the basic research issue of how human beings are social beings, while being unique in their personal ways of being. Issues of social representation, communication, dialogical self, and human subjectivity are represented in this book. The book contributes to the contemporary epistemological and ethical debate about the question of otherness, and would be of interest to educationalists, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists. It is an invitation to the wide readership to join in this collective effort towards the construction of new conceptions about myselfothers relationships that allow for innovative understanding of various social practices and problem solving in society.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Charlotte
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
798 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59311-233-2 (9781593112332)
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Content
Preface.
Part I. Conceptual Roots of "Otherness".
Chapter 1. The Enigmatic Other; Ernst Boesch.
Chapter 2. Why "Otherness" in the Research Domain of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism? Livia Mathias Simao.
Chapter 3. Interview for Part I. Transparency in the Meaning Making; Livia Mathias Simao and Alvaro Duran, in interview with Ernst E. Boesch.
Part II. Otherness and Dialogicality: Feeling Into Phenomena.
Chapter 1. The Feeling of a Dialogical Self: Affectivity, Agency, and Otherness; Joao Salgado.
Chapter 4. At the Boundary of Me and You: Semiotic Architecture of Thinking and Feeling the Other; Emily Abbey.
Chapter 5. The Self Experience of Otherness and the Shadows of Identity; Nelson Coelho Jr.
Interview for Part II. Allusion and Illusions: Dynamics of Self and Otherness; Nandita Chaudhary.
Part III. Striving Toward the Known Unknown: Self in Motion.
Chapter 1. Otherness in the Therapeutic Context: The Social Construction of Change; Marisa Japur, Carla Guanaes, and Emerson F. Rasera.
Chapter 7. Time, Self, and the Other: The Striving Tourist in Ladakh, North India; Alex Gillespie.
Chapter 8. Dynamics of Interiority: Ruptures and Transitions in the Self Development; Tania Zittoun.
Interview for Part III. Striving Toward Novelty in a Scientific Dialogue; Alexander Poddiakov.
Part IV. Self in Collective Otherness.
Chapter 1. Otherness in Historically Situated Self-Experiences: A Case-Study on How Historical Events Affect the Architecture of the Self; Alberto Rosa, Jorge Castro, and Florentino Blanco.
Chapter 10. Contemporary Chinese Communication With Its Cultural Others; Shi-Xu.
Chapter 11. The Game of Political Debates: A Play of Social Representations and Beyond; Derek Richer and Jaan Valsiner.
Interview for Part IV. Questions About the Functions of Otherness; Gyuseog Han.
Part V. The Other Within the Self: Dynamics of Multiplicity.
Chapter 1. Honoring Self-Otherness: Alterity and the Intrapersonal; Mick Cooper and Hubert Hermans.
Chapter 13. Intersubjectivity and Otherness: A Stage for Self Strivings; Danilo Silva Guimaraes and Livia Mathias Simao.
Chapter 14. Human Development as Migration: Striving Towards the Unknown; Jaan Valsiner.
Interview for Part V. Intersubjectivity and the Experience of Otherness: A Reflection Upon Relational Accounts of Subjectivity; Carla Cunha.
General Conclusions.
About the Authors.
Part I. Conceptual Roots of "Otherness".
Chapter 1. The Enigmatic Other; Ernst Boesch.
Chapter 2. Why "Otherness" in the Research Domain of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism? Livia Mathias Simao.
Chapter 3. Interview for Part I. Transparency in the Meaning Making; Livia Mathias Simao and Alvaro Duran, in interview with Ernst E. Boesch.
Part II. Otherness and Dialogicality: Feeling Into Phenomena.
Chapter 1. The Feeling of a Dialogical Self: Affectivity, Agency, and Otherness; Joao Salgado.
Chapter 4. At the Boundary of Me and You: Semiotic Architecture of Thinking and Feeling the Other; Emily Abbey.
Chapter 5. The Self Experience of Otherness and the Shadows of Identity; Nelson Coelho Jr.
Interview for Part II. Allusion and Illusions: Dynamics of Self and Otherness; Nandita Chaudhary.
Part III. Striving Toward the Known Unknown: Self in Motion.
Chapter 1. Otherness in the Therapeutic Context: The Social Construction of Change; Marisa Japur, Carla Guanaes, and Emerson F. Rasera.
Chapter 7. Time, Self, and the Other: The Striving Tourist in Ladakh, North India; Alex Gillespie.
Chapter 8. Dynamics of Interiority: Ruptures and Transitions in the Self Development; Tania Zittoun.
Interview for Part III. Striving Toward Novelty in a Scientific Dialogue; Alexander Poddiakov.
Part IV. Self in Collective Otherness.
Chapter 1. Otherness in Historically Situated Self-Experiences: A Case-Study on How Historical Events Affect the Architecture of the Self; Alberto Rosa, Jorge Castro, and Florentino Blanco.
Chapter 10. Contemporary Chinese Communication With Its Cultural Others; Shi-Xu.
Chapter 11. The Game of Political Debates: A Play of Social Representations and Beyond; Derek Richer and Jaan Valsiner.
Interview for Part IV. Questions About the Functions of Otherness; Gyuseog Han.
Part V. The Other Within the Self: Dynamics of Multiplicity.
Chapter 1. Honoring Self-Otherness: Alterity and the Intrapersonal; Mick Cooper and Hubert Hermans.
Chapter 13. Intersubjectivity and Otherness: A Stage for Self Strivings; Danilo Silva Guimaraes and Livia Mathias Simao.
Chapter 14. Human Development as Migration: Striving Towards the Unknown; Jaan Valsiner.
Interview for Part V. Intersubjectivity and the Experience of Otherness: A Reflection Upon Relational Accounts of Subjectivity; Carla Cunha.
General Conclusions.
About the Authors.