The Self and Social Relations

• Main Author: Whittingham, Matthew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Sociology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Philosophy of Man.; Sociological Theory.; Self and Identity.

This book is concerned with the human individual and her relationship with the communities of which she is a member. It argues against the traditional atomistic view that individuals are essentially independent of the social relations into which they enter, and instead argues for the holistic view t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Mill and Bradley on the Individual
• 2. Reconciling Communal Identity and Social Criticism
• 3. Foundationalism and the Disengaged Knower
• 4. The Transcendental Arguments: Part 1-Hegel
• 5. The Transcendental Arguments: Part 2-Wittgenstein
• 6. The Ground of Reason and Knowledge
• 7. Identity and Self-Determination
• 8. Freedom and Schizophrenia.