Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values
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Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values

Truth, Language, and Desire

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values

Truth, Language, and Desire

About this book

This volume presents a theoretical defense of the potential of ordinary individuals to construct values and through them to become self-empowering, responsible participants in a democratic community. Rather than conceiving of power as domination, the author identifies true power as self-empowerment, a notion based on self-construction. He proposes the vision of an authentically free self filled with a compassion that is a composite of reason and feeling. Such a composite self does not consciously manipulate language, truth, and desire to dominate and subordinate other individuals, but uses them to construct values and norms that can enrich others. To support his argument the author draws on both classical and contemporary philosophers, as well as on literary sources.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2001
Print ISBN
9780275973148
eBook ISBN
9780313390852
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. The Analysis of Power: Foucault and Habermas
  5. 2. Self-Construction and the Formation of Values that Empower
  6. 3. Self-Construction and the Desiring Subject: Power and Domination
  7. 4. Self-Empowerment and Self-Construction: Power in the American Pragmatic Tradition
  8. 5. Conclusion
  9. Bibliography
  10. Index