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Libro 4 di 18: Routledge Research in Psychology

Abel, Chris

 
9780367740726: The Self-Field: Mind, Body and Environment
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ISBN 10: 0367740729 ISBN 13: 9780367740726
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2021

Sinossi

In this incisive study of the biological and cultural origins of the human self, the author challenges readers to re-think ideas about the self and consciousness as being exclusive to humans. In their place, he expounds a metatheoretical approach to the self as a purposeful system of extended cognition common to animal life: the invisible medium maintaining mind, body and environment as an integrated ‘field of being’.

Supported by recent research in evolutionary and developmental studies together with related discoveries in animal behaviour and the neurosciences, the author examines the factors that have shaped the evolution of the animal self across widely different species and times, through to the modern, technologically enmeshed human self; the differences between which, he contends, are relations of degree rather than absolute differences. We are, he concludes, instinctive and ‘fuzzy individuals’ clinging to fragile identities in an artificial and volatile world of humanity’s own making, but which we now struggle to control.

This book, which restores the self to its fundamental place in identity formation, will be of great interest for students and academics in the fields of social, developmental and environmental psychology, together with readers from other disciplines in the humanities, especially philosophy, cultural theory and architecture.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Chris Abel is an award-winning author of numerous interdisciplinary publications on the built environment and identity theory. He has taught at universities around the world, most recently at the University of Sydney and the University of Ulster, Belfast.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0367740729
ISBN 13 
9780367740726
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
346
Contatto del produttore
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