In search of self
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives on personhood
By: edited by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen & Erik P. Wiebe
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780802863867
Subjects: Kristendom; Self; Theological anthropology; Teologisk antropologi; Christianity; Jaget; Religiösa aspekter; Philosophical anthropology
Other titles: Interdisciplinary perspectives on personhood
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The Self and Origins :; title: 1. Origin of the human sense of self / Ian Tattersall; title: 2. An archeology of the self : the prehistory of personhood / Ian Hodder; title: 3. Are apes and elephants persons? / Barbara J. King; title: 4. Neuroscience and spirituality / Eric Bergemann, Daniel J. Siegel, Deanie Eichenstein, and Ellen Streit; title: 5. In search of "folk anthropology" : the cognitive anthropology of the person / Emma Cohen and Justin L. Barrett; title: Part II. The Self and Multiplicity :; title: 6. Disunity and disorder : the "problem" of self-fragmentation / Léon Turner; title: 7. Reenactors : theological and psychological reflections on "core selves," multiplicity, and the sense of cohesion / Pamela Cooper-White; title: 8. The existential self in a culture of multiplicity : Hubert Hermans's theory of the dialogical self / Hetty Zock; title: 9. The multiple self / Helen Tallon Russell and Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki; title: 10. On the elusive nature of the human self : divining the ontological dynamics of animate being / Maxine Sheets Johnsone; title: Part III. The Self and Identity :; title: 11. The quest for self-identity / Calvin O. Schrag; title: 12. Posthuman selves : bodies, cognitive processes, and technologies / Jennifer Thweatt-Bates; title: 13. The erotic self and the image of God / Jan-Olav Henriksen; title: 14. Human pharmakon : the anthropology of technological lives / João Biehl; title: Part IV. The Self and Emergence :; title: 15. Enigmatic experiences : spirit, complexity, and person / Catherine Keller; title: 16. The emergence of self / James W. Haag, Terrence W. Deacon, and Jay Ogilvy; title: 17. Neurononsense and the soul / Roger Scruton; title: 18. Persons at home in the universe : openness, purpose, and transcendence / Philip A. Rolnick.