Our Practices, Our Selves: Or What It Means to Be Human

by Todd May

This enjoyable book, written in an engaging, colloquial voice, is that rare kind of introduction to philosophy that both (1) shows that philosophy is a distinctive form of lively conceptual activity rather than an inert body of dusty doctrines and (2) makes a contribution to the field it introduces by showing the importance of our multifarious human practices to questions of selfhood and identity. The fundamental thesis of the book--that practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271020865
• ISBN13: 9780271020860
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"