Otherness in Question
Development of the Self
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2007
425 pages
978-1-60752-560-8 (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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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface: Otherness in Question, Labyrinths of the Self or 348
- Part I - Conceptual Roots of "Otherness
- CH$Chapter 1. The Enigmatic Other
- CH$Chapter 2. Why "Otherness" in the Research Domain of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism?
- Interview for Part I: Transparency in the Meaning Making: Lívia Mathias Simão and Álvaro Pacheco Duran, in Interview With Ernst E. Boesch
- Part II - Otherness and Dialogicality: Feeling into Phenomena
- CH$Chapter 3. The Feeling of a Dialogical Self: Affectivity, Agency, and Otherness
- CH$Chapter 4. At the Boundary of Me and You: Semotic Architecture of Thinking and Feeling the Other
- CH$Chapter 5. The Self Experience of Otherness and the Shadow of Identity
- Interview for Part II: Allusion and Illusions - Dynamics of Self and Otherness: A Commentary
- Part III - Striving Toward the Known Unknowns: Self in Motion
- CH$Chapter 6. Otherness in the Therapeutic Context: The Social Construction of Change
- CH$Chapter 7. Time, Self, and the Other: The Striving Tourist in Ladakh, North India
- CH$CHapter 8. Dynamics of Interiority: Ruptures and Transitions in the Self Development
- Interview for Part III: Striving Toward Novelty in a Scientific Dialogue
- Part IV - Self in Collective Otherness
- CH$Chapter 9 Otherness in Historically Situated Self-Experiences: A Case-Study on How Historical Events Affect the Architecture of the Self
- CH$Chapter 10 Contemporary Chinese Communication With Its Cultural Others
- CH$Chapter 11 The Game of Political Debates: A Play of Social Representations and Beyond
- Interview for Part IV: Questions About the Functions of Otherness - Subject Endangered Commentary on Papers in the Section of "Self in Collective Otherness"
- Part V - The Other Within the Self: Dynamics of Multiplicity
- CH$Chapter 12. Honoring Self-Otherness: Alterity and the Intrapersonal
- CH$Chapter 13 Intersubjectivity and Otherness: A Stage for the Self Strivings
- CH$Chapter 14 Human Development as Migration: Striving Toward the Unknown
- Interview for Part V: Intersubjectivity and the Experiences of Otherness - A Reflection Upon Relational Accounts of Subjectivity
- CH$General Conclusions (Editors): Multiple Faces of Otherness Within the Infinite Labyrinths of the Self
- About the Authors
