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Title

The social self in Zen and American pragmatism / Steve Odin.

Author

Odin, Steve, 1953-

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.

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Description

xvi, 482 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

The thesis of this work is that in both modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism there has been a paradigm shift from a monological concept of self as an isolated "I" to a dialogical concept of the social self as an "I-Thou relation," including a communication model of self as individual-society interaction. It is also shown for both traditions all aesthetic, moral, and religious values are a function of the social self arising through communicative interaction between the individual and society. However, at the same time this work critically examines major ideological conflicts arising between the social self theories of modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism with respect to such problems as individualism versus collectivism, freedom versus determinism, liberalism versus communitarianism, and relativism versus objectivism.

Series Statement

SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought

Uniform Title

SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Self (Philosophy)
• Philosophy, Japanese > 20th century
• Pragmatism
• Philosophy, Comparative
• Zen Buddhism > Doctrines
• pragmatism
• Philosophy, Japanese
• Pragmatismus
• Selbst
• Zen-Buddhismus
• Zen
• Pragmatisme
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-474) and index.

Contents

Part 1: The social self in modern Japanese philosophy -- Part 2: The social self in G.H. Mead and American philosophy -- Part 3: The social self in Japanese and American philosophy.

ISBN

• 079142491X
• 9780791424919
• 0791424928
• 9780791424926

LCCN

94033404

OCLC

• ocm31075364
• 31075364
• SCSB-2076390

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library