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Being Yourself
Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life
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2004
Summary
Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self — the individual who acts — together with questions about self-expression — the relations between the self and action. It explains self-knowledge and self-direction in terms of a repertory of skills that gives people insight into who they are, who they want to be, and how they want to engage with the world. Unlike other accounts of self and action, Being Yourself takes into account the multidimensionality of the self — embodiment, interpersonal ties, nonconscious desires, and enculturation as well as rationality. It accents the ways in which atypical emotional responses, empathy, and oppositional imagery can contribute to moral understanding. It argues that repressive regimes cannot completely crush people's determination to live lives of their own, but it shows why it is vital to seek social changes that dismantle obstacles to this kind of life.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-1478-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7133-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
324
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Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
1 Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization No access
2 Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self? Opposites Attract! No access
3 Decentralizing Autonomy: Five Faces of Selfhood No access
4 The Personal, the Political, and Psycho-Corporeal Agency No access
5 The Socialized Individual and Individual Autonomy: An Intersection between Philosophy and Psychology No access
6 Moral Reflection: Beyond Impartial Reason No access
7 Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology No access
8 Narrative and Moral Life No access
9 Cultural Diversity: Rights, Goals, and Competing Values No access
10 Feminism and Women's Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting No access
11 Rights in Collision: A Nonpunitive, Compensatory Remedy for Abusive Speech No access
12 Gendered Work and Individual Autonomy No access
13 Feminine Mortality Imagery: Feminist Ripostes No access
