Origins of Self
The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys...
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University College London
2022
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| description | The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys to and through adulthood. Edwardes argues that other awareness is a relatively early evolutionary development, present throughout the primate clade and perhaps beyond, but self-awareness is a product of the sharing of social models, something only humans appear to do. The self of which we are aware is not something innate within us, it is a model of our self produced as a response to the models of us offered to us by other people. Edwardes proposes that human construction of selfhood involves seven different types of self. All but one of them are internally generated models, and the only non-model, the actual self, is completely hidden from conscious awareness. We rely on others to tell us about our self, and even to let us know we are a self. Developed in relation to a range of subject areas – linguistics, anthropology, genomics and cognition, as well as socio-cultural theory – The Origins of Self is of particular interest to students and researchers studying the origins of language, human origins in general, and the cognitive differences between human and other animal psychologies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-892352024-03-24T21:08:07Z Origins of Self Edwardes, Martin P. J. Philosophy of language thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys to and through adulthood. Edwardes argues that other awareness is a relatively early evolutionary development, present throughout the primate clade and perhaps beyond, but self-awareness is a product of the sharing of social models, something only humans appear to do. The self of which we are aware is not something innate within us, it is a model of our self produced as a response to the models of us offered to us by other people. Edwardes proposes that human construction of selfhood involves seven different types of self. All but one of them are internally generated models, and the only non-model, the actual self, is completely hidden from conscious awareness. We rely on others to tell us about our self, and even to let us know we are a self. Developed in relation to a range of subject areas – linguistics, anthropology, genomics and cognition, as well as socio-cultural theory – The Origins of Self is of particular interest to students and researchers studying the origins of language, human origins in general, and the cognitive differences between human and other animal psychologies. 2022-07-15T15:23:09Z 2022-07-15T15:23:09Z 2019 book ONIX_20220715_9781787356306_981 9781787356306 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89235 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://muse.jhu.edu/book/81330 University College London 10.1353/book.81330 10.1353/book.81330 d7c7cefe-d244-4c42-a87e-c9d7a46b684a 9781787356306 open access |
| spellingShingle | Philosophy of language thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language Origins of Self |
| title | Origins of Self |
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| topic | Philosophy of language thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language |
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