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Self and Identity
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 47.95This edited volume outlines the latest meta-theoretical and theoretical contexts of self-research. Self and Identity examines theoretical accounts of human experience within the contemporary socio-cultural milieu and attempts to answer the question of what it means to be human. It provides a clear structure within which to conceptualize contemporary... more...
Self and Identity
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 66.99Self and identity have been important yet volatile notions in psychology since its formative years as a scientific discipline. Recently, psychologists and other social scientists have begun to develop and refine the conceptual and empirical tools for studying the complex nature of self. This volume presents a critical analysis of fundamental issues... more...
Embodying the Monster
SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 65.00Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as 'monstrous' or 'vulnerable' and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily 'normality' and bodily perfection. Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response... more...
Reflexive Embodiment In Contemporary Society
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 203.00Explores the concept of reflexive embodiment, how we, as embodied beings, reflect upon our own embodiment. This book considers the ways in which we modify and maintain our bodies, from brushing our teeth and washing our face through to tattooing and bodybuilding. It also evaluates competing claims on embodiment and suggests alternative approaches. more...
The Idea of the Self
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 28.00Jerrold Seigel explores how major Western European thinkers have confronted the self from the seventeenth century to the present. more...
Self to Self
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions. more...
After Identity
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 28.00Explores our understanding of gender, sex and racial identities in individuals. more...
Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 89.95The majority of research on human perception and action examines sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual representation, as are the positions and actions (potential or ongoing) of other active... more...
Spilling Open
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 25.00"We are all facing choices that define us. No choice, however messy, is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it is only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself. This book is my life in progress." Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself... more...
The Self in Time
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 49.95Human reasoning is marked by an ability to remember one's personal past and to imagine one's future. Together these capacities rely on the notion of a temporally extended self or the self in time. Recent evidence suggests that it is during the preschool period that children first construct this form of self. By about four years of age, children can... more...









