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The Self in Question: Memory, The Body and Self-Consciousness
Andy Hamilton
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Description for The Self in Question: Memory, The Body and Self-Consciousness
Hardcover. A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification.
A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137290403
SKU
V9781137290403
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99-15
About Andy Hamilton
Andy Hamilton teaches philosophy at Durham University, UK. His publications include Aesthetics and Music (2007), Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (2007), Scruton's Aesthetics (2012, co-edited with Nick Zangwill), The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty (forthcoming) and many articles in aesthetics and philosophy of mind.
Reviews for The Self in Question: Memory, The Body and Self-Consciousness
“The book examines the relation between self-consciousness and: memory, personal identity, proprioception, the body and linguistic mastery of the first-person. … The book has a usefully detailed table of contents and clear introductory chapter. The different parts of the book seem relatively independent … . Students of self-consciousness and related topics will find it a stimulating read overall as well ... Read more