Author(s): Kristjan Kristjansson
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 289
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
1.1. The Age of the Self......Page 17
1.2. 'Bracketing’ the Author......Page 23
1.3. Aristotelian Presuppositions......Page 28
1.4. Interdisciplinary Focus......Page 32
1.5. A Roadmap......Page 34
2.1. Personality, Character, and Self......Page 41
2.2. Realism and Its Discontents......Page 44
2.3. Problems with Anti-Realism and Some Realist Alternatives......Page 53
2.4. Interlude: A Narrativist deus ex machina?......Page 58
2.5. Out of the Impasse: Humean Soft Self-Realism......Page 62
3.1. Fence Crossing or Fence Mending?......Page 69
3.2. Four Types of Naturalism......Page 71
3.3. 'Psychologised Morality’ versus 'Moralised Psychology’......Page 74
3.4. Self Research as a Test Case......Page 78
3.5. Moving Forward in Unison......Page 84
4.1. Emotions and Selfhood......Page 86
4.2. Self-Creation and Emotion......Page 89
4.3. The Self-Conscious Emotions......Page 93
4.4. The 'Gappiness Problem’......Page 102
4.5. An 'Integrative Model’ of Moral Selfhood?......Page 110
5.1. The Self-Esteem Industry......Page 115
5.2. The Debate about Global Self-Esteem......Page 120
5.3. Domain-Specific Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence......Page 128
5.4. Beyond Mere Self-Concept: Implicit Self-Esteem......Page 132
5.5. Self-Esteem, Emotion and Value......Page 136
6.1. The Situationist Challenge......Page 144
6.2. The Psychological Experiments and Their Alleged Implications......Page 146
6.3. Two Initial Objections to Situationism......Page 150
6.4. The Two Aristotelian Objections to Situationism......Page 153
6.5. Rejoinders and Implications......Page 158
7.1. Self-Respect Instead of Self-Esteem?......Page 164
7.2. Psychological Misgivings about Self-Respect......Page 167
7.3. Kantian or Aristotelian Self-Respect?......Page 169
7.4. Measuring the Components of Aristotelian Self-Respect......Page 177
7.5. The Objectivity of Self-Respect Revisited......Page 180
8.1. Culture-Specific Self-Concepts?......Page 183
8.2. Interdependent versus Independent Self-Concepts......Page 184
8.3 Four Initial Responses and Why They Fail......Page 190
8.4 Self-Cultures and Emotion......Page 197
8.5 The Possibility of Synergic Selfhood – or Phronesis Revisited......Page 199
9.1. Pathologies of the Actual Full Self and of Self-Concept......Page 207
9.2. The Self-Conflicts of Suicide Terrorists......Page 208
9.3. The Case of ADD/ADHD......Page 213
9.4. Medicalised Selves......Page 216
9.5. The Hedonistic Self-Concept......Page 225
10.1. Conceptual Preliminaries......Page 234
10.2. The Crystallised Self......Page 237
10.3. The Incremental Self......Page 240
10.4. The Homeostatic Self......Page 244
10.5. Conclusion – and Some Educational Implications......Page 248
References......Page 265
Index......Page 283
