Stephen Langfur

Philosophy Meets the Infant

How New Research Transforms the Understanding of Human Existence

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephen Langfur's Philosophy Meets the Infant integrates groundbreaking infancy studies of the last 50 years to offer a fresh exploration of our drive for human connection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032895291
• ISBN-10: 1032895292
• Artikelnr.: 72210044

Autorenporträt

Stephen Langfur (Ph. D.) has published widely in phenomenology and psychology journals. Philosophy is concerned with first things, and the same is true of infancy research, yet few have connected these disciplines. Philosophy Meets the Infant is Langfur's first book-length treatment of what he calls the You-I Event, in which self-awareness originates and develops through the attentions of others. He has also authored the philosophical memoir Confession from a Jericho Jail (Grove-Weidenfeld 1992, Fomite 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: The You-I Event in infancy and why it disappears
1 Introducing the You-I Event
2 Born to connect
3 Becoming I through a You
4 Counterfeiting the You-I Event
Part Two: The You-I Event after infancy
5 Heidegger's hammer and the spectral You
6 Love and the precluded You
7 The split-off self in action
8 The You-I Event in art
9 The You-I Event in conversation
Part Three: Philosophical issues
10 Other accounts of self-awareness
11 Free will and the You-I account
12 The call of conscience
13 God or the precluded You
14 What can be done
Appendix: Replies to imagined critics
Acknowledgements
Index