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Self-Respect and the Disrespect of Others
This paper addresses the question of whether there is a rational connection between self-respect and the disrespect of others by engaging with the so-called Stoic View (SV) presented by Colin Bird. According to SV, there is no such connection because … Continue reading
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The Hungry Ego – On our self-obsessed culture
Modern neuroscience has confronted us with a strange truth that is almost impossible to accept: we don’t exist. The concept of an ‘I’ that rides around in the head and is one coherent and fluid essence has been proven biologically … Continue reading
Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities
Resistance is normally thought of as a collective exercise of public political activity. In this article, Ball and Olmedo approach the question of resistance in a different way, through Foucault’s notion of ‘the care of the self’. Neoliberal reforms in … Continue reading
Posted in Educational policy, Foucault, Neoliberalism, Resistance, Self, Subjectivity
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Evolution and the Emergent Self: The Rise of Complexity and Behavioral Versatility in Nature
Raymond L. Neubauer presents a view of nature that describes rising complexity in life in terms of increasing information content, first in genes and then in brains. The evolution of the nervous system expanded the capacity to store information with … Continue reading
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Beyond Discourse: Education, the Self, and Dialogue
Drawing on the works of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores the roles that dialogue, laughter, and spontaneity play in the education of the whole person. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts of dialogue and carnival, and in connection with … Continue reading
The Narrative Construction of the Self – Selfhood as a Rhizomatic Story
In this article, the authors use the metaphor of the rhizome of the French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari as an experimental methodological concept to study the narrative construction of the self. By considering the self as a rhizomatic story, the … Continue reading
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Foucault, Education, the Self and Modernity
Michel Foucault is often criticised in English-speaking circles for being interested only in power as domination, and of being uninterested in freedom and social reform. This paper shows, however, that Foucault’s overarching concern was with the constitution of the self … Continue reading
The Self in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory – Reclaiming the Unity of Social and Individual Dimensions of Human Development
This paper suggests a framework in which the importance of the individual dimension and agency can be reclaimed within a profoundly social and relational view of the self. Juxtaposed with recent research on the self, cultural-historical activity theory is discussed, … Continue reading
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Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and counter-Positioning in a Globalizing Society
Dialogical Self Theory provides a comprehensive social-scientific theory that incorporates the deep implications of the process of globalization, and its impact on individual development. Hubert Hermans and Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka present a new and compelling view of the historical changes in … Continue reading
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