| Titel: | Social constructions of self: Some Asian, Marxist, and feminist critiques of dominant Western views of self |
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| Autor: | Allen, D |
| Mediengruppe: | chapter |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Culture and Self: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives, East and West. |
| Jahr: | 1997 |
| Band: | --- |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | 3-26 |
| Sprache: | English; englisch |
| Abstract: | (from the introduction) Argues against a traditional philosophical orientation, in the East and West, that maintains that philosophers uncover the 'true,'' 'objective,'' eternal nature of 'the self'' by penetrating beneath layers of ignorance and illusion. After analyzing some of the complex relations among texts, contexts, and interpretations, [the author] formulates a modern, post-Cartesian view of the self as the autonomous individual that has dominated Western socioeconomic, political, and cultural life. Then he presents 4 alternative concepts of self: the Hindu 'karma yoga'' of the 'Bhagavad-Gita,'' the Buddha's teaching of 'anatta'' (no-self), Marx's analysis of the historical constitution of the modern capitalist self, and the approaches of de Beauvoir and other feminists to masculinist formulations of self. /// Though [the author] concurs with the recent philosophical assertion that no specific concept of self may claim exclusivistic, ahistoric, universal truth, he argues against certain extreme relativisms that insist on the primacy and absoluteness of difference. ; (from the introduction) Argues against a traditional philosophical orientation, in the East and West, that maintains that philosophers uncover the "true,"" "objective,"" eternal nature of "the self"" by penetrating beneath layers of ignorance and illusion. After analyzing some of the complex relations among texts, contexts, and interpretations, [the author] formulates a modern, post-Cartesian view of the self as the autonomous individual that has dominated Western socioeconomic, political, and cultural life. Then he presents 4 alternative concepts of self: the Hindu "karma yoga"" of the "Bhagavad-Gita,"" the Buddha"s teaching of "anatta"" (no-self), Marx"s analysis of the historical constitution of the modern capitalist self, and the approaches of de Beauvoir and other feminists to masculinist formulations of self. (introduction); Though [the author] concurs with the recent philosophical assertion that no specific concept of self may claim exclusivistic, ahistoric, universal truth, he argues against certain extreme relativisms that insist on the primacy and absoluteness of difference. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) (introduction) |