Overview
Covers a range of material in an interconnected manner, from technical theories of knowledge to discussion of selfhood
Focuses on notions such as freedom, self-knowledge, and well-being
Serves as a gateway to an expansive range of subjects while being accessible to a wide audience
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 that we are essentially social beings who cannot exist apart from normative communities.
Matthew Whittingham engages in a sustained exploration and criticism of the classic Western picture of epistemology. He argues instead that communities ground the possibility of our forming a conception of the world and ourselves, that those social relations open up a range of affective responses and forms of action that would otherwise be impossible, they enable us to know and reason about the world, and they make possible the daily struggles for freedom and self-realization that are familiar to us all and find their most powerful expression in major social movements.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Self and Social Relations
Authors: Matthew Whittingham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77246-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77245-5Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08409-7Published: 05 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77246-2Published: 29 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 248
Topics: Philosophy of Man, Sociological Theory, Self and Identity