Description
The Messy Self challenges the idea -- and the ideal -- of a coherent, harmonious self. Taken together, the essays illustrate how a flourishing self is inevitably divided, ambivalent, fractured, messy -- and how the self triumphs through disorder. Written in accessible language by award-winning writers and scholars, the book offers a diversity of perspectives on the complexities of the self. With chapters on creativity, love, self-understanding, self-deception, identity, responsibility, and well-being, The Messy Self gives a range of voices to the ordinary and extraordinary divisions, fragmentations, and uncertainties that mark our everyday experience.
About the Author
Jennifer Rosner holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University. She works in the area of moral psychology and has published numerous articles on the self in academic journals. Currently, she is writing a memoir about deafness in her family, which she traces from the 1800s to the present day.
Book Information
ISBN 9781594512919
Author Jennifer Rosner
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 408g
About the Author
Jennifer Rosner holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University. She works in the area of moral psychology and has published numerous articles on the self in academic journals. Currently, she is writing a memoir about deafness in her family, which she traces from the 1800s to the present day.
Book Information
ISBN 9781594512919
Author Jennifer Rosner
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 408g
