Timothy Stephen

Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning

Communication and the Marriage of Minds

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Produktbeschreibung

Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning explores the nature and origins of widespread problems of self in modern societies. It examines the paradoxical interplay between the modern world's many benefits and freedoms, and its mounting social challenges and psycho-emotional impacts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780367445041
• ISBN-10: 0367445042
• Artikelnr.: 62219746

Autorenporträt

Timothy Stephen, PhD, is professor of communication at University at Albany (SUNY) specializing in the interrelationships of language, mind, culture, the self-concept, and intimacy, and, particularly, in the way in which communication in intimacy produces shared mind.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Interpersonal Climate Change
Part 1: Language, Mind, and Intimacy
2. A Change of Mind
3. Signals to Symbols: The Awakening of Intimate Experience
Part 2: The Origins of Uncertainty
4. Through the Rear-View Mirror
5. Recipe for Existential Crisis: Step 1. Undermine Certainty and Truth
6. Recipe for Existential Crisis: Step 2. Weaken Neighbourhood Ties
7. Recipe for Existential Crisis: Step 3. Foster Isolation
Part 3: The Shape of the Modern Self
8. Selfie Nation
9. Self from the Inside Out: Language, Mind, and the Sense of Self
10. From the Basement Up: Modernity, the Self, and the Unconscious Mind
11. And from the Outside In: Influences of Work, Technology, and Societal Institutions
12. We Are Each Other: The Dawn of the Interpersonal Self
13. Multi-Me: Self, Intimacy, and Loss
14. Mini-Me: Wrong Ideas about Communication, Self, and Intimacy
Chapter Notes
Bibliography.