Selfhood and Authenticity - Softcover

Anton, Corey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791449009 ISBN 13: 9780791449004

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

Drawing upon numerous influential thinkers of the twentieth century, including Heidegger, Bakhtin, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Goffman, Schrag, and Taylor, Selfhood and Authenticity articulates the phenomenological constitution by which social construction is a real possibility. Anton brings phenomenology and existential philosophy to wider audiences and makes complex insights refreshingly lucid by systematically radicalizing and integrating the notions of embodiment, sociality, symbolicity, and temporality.

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Review:

"Corey Anton is quickly becoming a major voice in the developing interdisciplinary field of communication and philosophy. Selfhood and Authenticity explores the landscape marked out in his investigations with a combined theoretical incisiveness and praxis-oriented understanding. It makes a very important contribution to the existing literature in the field." -- Calvin O. Schrag, author of The Self after Postmodernity

"Corey Anton's creative utilization of phenomenologies of embodiment as a basis for a communicative self is accentuated by a clear command of phenomenological literature. The discussion of sociality is excellent, and the explication of temporality is grand in scope. The work is, in other words, a short systematic treatise." -- Lewis R. Gordon, Brown University

Synopsis:

Anton (communication, Grand Valley State University) expands on the work of phenomenologists and existential philosophers like Heidegger, Bakhtin, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Goffman, Schrag, and Taylor to explicate the phenomenological constitution compatible with social construction. Focussing on the relationship between authenticity and the self, the

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0791449009
• ISBN 13: 9780791449004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192