Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Person Vanishes: John Dewey's Philosophy of Experience and the Self

The Person Vanishes: John Dewey's Philosophy of Experience and the Self

Lubling, Yoram

Hardcover

Series: American University Studies, Book 206

PhilosophyGeneral EducationGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1433106086
ISBN13: 9781433106088
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Feb 10 2011
Pages: 277
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Person Vanishes argues that despite John Dewey's failure to articulate an adequate theory of personality, his writings provide at least a theory-sketch of human personality consistent with the assumptions that framed his philosophical outlook. Recognizing the new developments in society, science, and the arts, Dewey argues for the necessity of a Copernican revolution in our understanding of the human self; from the monadic and minimalist self of the Cartesian-Newtonian modernist tradition to a relational and processual model of selfhood consonant with the press of post-modernist historical experience. As a field and activity conception, Dewey's self emerges as a nexus of relational energizing, genuinely moored in a cultural surrounding in which ongoing creative reconstruction becomes the mark and criterion of the self's health and growth. What vanishes in Dewey's reconstruction is not the self as such, but only the entitative, substantive self of early modernism.

Also in

Philosophy

View All