Education of Selves: How Psychology Transformed Students

by Jack Martin, Ann-Marie McLellan, Jack Martin

Book Overview

Most contemporary North Americans, as well as many other Westerners, take for granted their conceptions of themselves as individuals with uniquely valuable and complex inner lives -- lives filled with beliefs, imaginings, understandings, and motives that determine their actions and accomplishments. Yet, such psychological conceptions of selfhood are relatively recent, dating mostly from the late eighteenth century. Perhaps more surprisingly, our understandings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199913676
• ISBN13: 9780199913671
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"