The Self in Question
Memory, The Body and Self-Consciousness
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2013
XII, 249 pages
978-1-137-29041-0 (ISBN)
Description
A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification.
Reviews / Votes
"The book examines the relation between self-consciousness and: memory, personal identity, proprioception, the body and linguistic mastery of the first-person. . The book has a usefully detailed table of contents and clear introductory chapter. The different parts of the book seem relatively independent . . Students of self-consciousness and related topics will find it a stimulating read overall as well a useful resource to consult at the more local level." (Daniel Morgan, Analysis, Vol. 76 (3), July, 2016)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XII, 249 p.
File size
1,39 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-29041-0 (9781137290410)
DOI
10.1057/9781137290410
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2013
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
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Person
Andy Hamilton teaches philosophy at Durham University, UK. His publications include
Aesthetics and Music
(2007),
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art
(2007),
Scruton's Aesthetics
(2012, co-edited with Nick Zangwill),
The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty
(forthcoming) and many articles in aesthetics and philosophy of mind.
Content
Preface Introduction 1. Self-Consciousness and Its Linguistic Expression 2. Memory and Self-Consciousness (1): Immunity to Error Through Misidentification and the Critique of Quasi-Memory 3. Memory and Self-Consciousness (2): The Conceptual Holism of Memory and Personal Identity, and the Unity of Consciousness 4. Proprioception and Self-Consciousness (1): Proprioception as Direct, Immediate Knowledge of the Body 5. Proprioception and Self-Consciousness (2): Self-Conscious Knowledge and the Rejection of Self-Presentation 6. Self-Identification and Self-Reference 7. Humanism and Animal Self-Consciousness Bibliography Index
