Selves, People, and Persons: What Does It Mean to Be a Self?

by Leroy S. Rouner

Book Overview

This volume of the Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion addresses the meaning of selfhood. The eleven contributors explore this urgent question by reshaping fundamental ideas of the self in such varied fields as theology, biology, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy.

The meaning of selfhood has become an urgent question, largely in reaction to the radical individualism in which many modern Western notions of selfhood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268017689
• ISBN13: 9780268017682
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"