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Meadian reflections on the existential ambivalence of human selfhood [PDF]

, 2010
This paper examines the existential ambivalence of human selfhood by drawing upon George Herbert Mead’s distinction between the ‘I’ and the ‘me’. In order to make a case for the centrality of this conceptual distinction, the paper offers a comprehensive
Susen, Simon
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A Forest of Stories for a Girl in Search of Herself: The Snow Forest as a Narrative Scene in Sophie Andersonʼs The Girl Who Speaks Bear

Barnelitterært Forskningstidsskrift, 2022
In the novel The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson, twelve-year-old Yanka, adopted when she was two and struggling to fit in, heads for The Snow Forest in search of answers about her past.
Caterina Balistreri Bonsaver
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The Fractured Self: Exploring Selfhood in the Neuronovel The Echo Maker and the Neuromemoir Brain on Fire

European Journal of American Studies, 2021
This paper will focus on two works: the neuronovel The Echo Maker (2006) by Richard Powers, a fictional account of Mark Schluter who suffers from Capgras Syndrome, that is, a rare neurological condition that results in the patient’s belief that their ...
Bonnie Cross
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The 'We' in 'Me': An Account of Minimal Relational Selfhood [PDF]

, 2020
Many philosophers contend that selfhood involves a uniquely first-personal experiential dimension, which precedes any form of socially dependent selfhood.
Higgins, Joe
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Rein Raud: Being in Flux—A Post-Anthropocentric Ontology of the Self

Asian Studies, 2023
The book provides a reading of ontology, consciousness, selfhood, and agency primarily based on the concepts of process and field. By using these concepts as springboards, Rein Raud strives to supply a holistic system of interpretation in which ...
Manuel Rivera Espinoza
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Bodywork in dementia care: recognising the commonalities of selfhood to facilitate respectful care in institutional settings [PDF]

, 2014
This paper draws on two data sources (Kelly's ethnographic study and a British Broadcasting Corporation television programme) to explore the practice of bodywork in the care of frail people with dementia in institutional settings.
Kelly, Fiona, FIONA KELLY
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Recognising and supporting self in dementia: a new way to facilitate a person-centred approach to dementia care [PDF]

, 2010
This paper reports findings from a three-year study which integrated Kitwood’s (1997) person-centred and Sabat’s (2001) selfhood approaches in the design, fieldwork and analysis of a multi-method observational study that explored the social worlds of 14 ...
Kelly, Fiona
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Descartes on Selfhood, Conscientia, the First Person and Beyond [PDF]

, 2023
I discuss Descartes’ metaphysics of selfhood, and relevant parts of contemporary philosophy regarding the first person. My two main concerns are the controversy that surrounds Descartes’ conception of conscientia, mistranslated as ‘consciousness’, and ...
Christofidou, Andrea
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Relational Well-Being in Non-WEIRD Societies: A Reformulation of Happiness From a Chinese Cultural Perspective. [PDF]

Psych J
ABSTRACT Positive psychology has made substantial contributions to the scientific understanding of human flourishing, yet its conceptual architecture remains disproportionately grounded in WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) populations.
Xie M, Mao Y, Leong FTL.
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Narratives of Genetic Selfhood**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2022
AbstractThis essay considers the mid‐twentieth century adoption of genetic explanations for three biological phenomena: nutritional adaptation, antibiotic resistance, and antibody production. This occurred at the same time as the hardening of the neo‐Darwinian Synthesis in evolutionary theory.
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