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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. This ambitious new work, the first of its kind, traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present. Winner of ForeWord's Book of the Year Award in Philosophy.
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This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. Paul, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne. In their coverage of the emergence of a new mechanistic conception of nature in the seventeenth century, Martin and Barresi note a shift away from religious and purely philosophical notions of self and personal identity to more scientific and social conceptions, a trend that has continued to the present day.
They explore modern philosophy and psychology, including the origins of different traditions within each discipline, and explain both the theoretical relevance of feminism and gender and ethnic studies and also the ways that Derrida and other recent thinkers have challenged the very idea that a unified self or personal identity even exists. Martin and Barresi cover a number of issues broached by philosophers and psychologists, such as the existence of a fixed and unchanging self and whether the concept of the soul has a use outside of religious contexts. They address the question of whether notions of the soul and the self are still viable in today's world. Together, they reveal the fascinating ways in which great thinkers have grappled with these and other questions and the astounding impact their ideas have had on the development of self-understanding in the west.
Contents
Introduction 1. From Myth to Science 2. Individualism and Subjectivity 3. People of the Book 4. Resurrected Self 5. The Stream Divides 6. Aristotelian Synthesis 7. Care of the Soul 8. Mechanization of Nature 9. Naturalizing the Soul 10. Philosophy of Spirit 11. Science of Human Nature 12. Before the Fall 13. Paradise Lost 14. Everything That Happened and What It Means Notes References Index
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