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Discusses the philosophical concept of personality, and looks at emotions, jealousy, adaptivity, the fear of death, moral myths, virtue, and imagination
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Rorty, a Rutgers professor of philosophy, maintains that love, jealousy, hope, fear of death and self-knowledge are all processes rather than mental states. This dynamic outlook undergirds her attempt to set forth an ethical theory capable of guiding our actions. She charts the concept of the person as a self-defining, free agent in the writings of philosophers, Freud and Western literature from Greek drama through Jane Austen's world of nascent, introspective selves to Beckett's plays devoid of free will. Examining the workings of self-deception, Rorty, whose books include Explaining Emotions , advances a view of the self as a set of subsystems in need of integration. Her penetrating, dense essays remind us that jealousy need not involve love, and that an attitude of calm rationality may be inappropriate to one's life circumstances. She also argues brilliantly that every ethical theory implies an underlying political commitment to a particular distribution of power.
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This collection of 15 essays explores contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind. The first essays discuss social and political concepts of personhood and personal identity; succeeding essays, the psychological aspects of personhood such as emotions, desire, and rationality; and the remaining essays, the complex interactions between the individual person and the moral and political community. The overall intent is to suggest a critical reexamination of our traditional concepts of "mind" and "person." As the topics discussed are quite technical in nature, this book will interest primarily scholars and advanced students of philosophy and psychology. Raymond Frey, Bergen Community Coll., Paramus, N.J.
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