The Subjective Self: A Portrait Inside Logical Space - Couverture rigide

Fisher, Harwood

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803220103 ISBN 13 : 9780803220102

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2001

Synopsis

For all their strides in understanding how we create and think about cultures, psychologists, linguists, and logicians have had difficulty explaining how we conceive our selves―how the self can, in fact, be both the object and the subjective originator of its surroundings. Harwood Fisher's purpose in this far-reaching, interdisciplinary book is to depict the subjective self in its true complex duality. In The Subjective Self, Fisher argues that the key to depicting both aspects of the self simultaneously and thus modeling it more holistically than before is to visualize the self in a logical space. From an origin point inside this space, the self tries out metaphors and launches categories to logically order what it wants, sees, and encounters. This is a creative cognitive process, "metaphoric framing," by which the self invents new forms and depicts new organizations of its experiences, impressions, and information. It is also a generative linguistic process, "bracketing," by which the self can step outside its own expressed thoughts, gain new levels of awareness, re-position itself as an agent responsible for its ideas and statements, and, in short, empower its own identity. The framing sets in motion versatile mental categories―forms that are projected into mental space, where they become objectified. The bracketing sets in motion the logical bounds of the "I," stabilizing the individual's identity and giving thrust to the subjective self's dynamic causal role. In elaborating this theory, Fisher extends the ideas of Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, and C. S. Peirce, among others. By drawing on each of these thinkers, he is able to bring their common themes of perspective and construction together in his portrait of the self as a creative iconic space.

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À propos de l'auteur

Harwood Fisher is a professor emeritus at City College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Language and Logic in Personality and Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803220103
• ISBN 13: 9780803220102
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 485
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible