The Conceptual Self in Context: Culture Experience Self Understanding

by Ulric Neisser and David A. Jopling

Book Overview

For years, thinkers have debated the meaning and origin of the self-concept. Among contested issues are how people in different cultures can have sharply different concepts of self, what can be known about the self-concepts of depressives and schizophrenics, how meditation can affect the sense of self, and if there is an inner self of selves, as James once suggested. In this collection, a prestigious group of psychologists, anthropologists, and philosophers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521153603
• ISBN13: 9780521153607
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"