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The Self and Social Relations
This book is concerned with the human individual and her relationship with the communities of which she is a member. It argues against the traditional atomistic view that individuals are essentially independent of the social relations into which they enter, and instead argues for the holistic view that we are essentially social beings who cannot exist apart from normative communities.

Matthew Whittingham engages in a sustained exploration and criticism of the classic Western picture of epistemology. He argues instead that communities ground the possibility of our forming a conception of the world and ourselves, that those social relations open up a range of affective responses and forms of action that would otherwise be impossible, they enable us to know and reason about the world, and they make possible the daily struggles for freedom and self-realization that are familiar to us all and find their most powerful expression in major social movements.

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The Self and Social Relations
This book is concerned with the human individual and her relationship with the communities of which she is a member. It argues against the traditional atomistic view that individuals are essentially independent of the social relations into which they enter, and instead argues for the holistic view that we are essentially social beings who cannot exist apart from normative communities.

Matthew Whittingham engages in a sustained exploration and criticism of the classic Western picture of epistemology. He argues instead that communities ground the possibility of our forming a conception of the world and ourselves, that those social relations open up a range of affective responses and forms of action that would otherwise be impossible, they enable us to know and reason about the world, and they make possible the daily struggles for freedom and self-realization that are familiar to us all and find their most powerful expression in major social movements.

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The Self and Social Relations

The Self and Social Relations

by Matthew Whittingham
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The Self and Social Relations

by Matthew Whittingham

Overview

This book is concerned with the human individual and her relationship with the communities of which she is a member. It argues against the traditional atomistic view that individuals are essentially independent of the social relations into which they enter, and instead argues for the holistic view that we are essentially social beings who cannot exist apart from normative communities.

Matthew Whittingham engages in a sustained exploration and criticism of the classic Western picture of epistemology. He argues instead that communities ground the possibility of our forming a conception of the world and ourselves, that those social relations open up a range of affective responses and forms of action that would otherwise be impossible, they enable us to know and reason about the world, and they make possible the daily struggles for freedom and self-realization that are familiar to us all and find their most powerful expression in major social movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319772455
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 06/29/2018
Edition description: 1st ed. 2018
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Matthew Whittingham completed his PhD in philosophy at The University of Kent, where he has taught analytic and continental philosophy, as well as the history of philosophy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Mill and Bradley on the Individual

Chapter 2: Reconciling Communal Identity and Social Criticism

Chapter 3: Foundationalism and the Disengaged Knower

Chapter 4: The Transcendental Arguments: Part 1 - Hegel

Chapter 5: The Transcendental Arguments: Part 2 - Wittgenstein

Chapter 6: The Ground of Reason and Knowledge

Chapter 7: Identity and Self-Determination

Chapter 8: Freedom and Schizophrenia

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