Selves, People, and Persons : What Does It Mean to Be a Self?

Rouner, Leroy S. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0268017689 / ISBN 13: 9780268017682

Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selves, People, and Persons : What Does It Mean to Be a Self?
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268017689
• ISBN 13: 9780268017682
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume of the Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion addresses the meaning of selfhood. The eleven contributors explore this urgent question by reshaping fundamental ideas of the self in such varied fields as theology, biology, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy.

The meaning of selfhood has become an urgent question, largely in reaction to the radical individualism in which many modern Western notions of selfhood have been cast. The eleven contributors to Selves, People, and Persons reshape fundamental ideas of the self in such varied fields as theology, biology, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy. Nearly all of them agree that selves are always to be understood in relation to the communities of which they are a part.

About the Author

Leroy S. Rouner (d. 2006) was the Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Philosophical Theology and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. He edited a number of books and is the author of Within Human Experience: The Philosophy of William Ernest Hocking and To Be at Home: Christianity, Civil Religion and World Community.