Self to Self
Selected Essays

Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions.

J. David Velleman (Author)

9780521854290, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 January 2006

400 pages
23.5 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.76 kg

Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the distinguished philosopher J. David Velleman. Although each of the essays was written as an independent piece, they are unified by an overarching thesis, that there is no single entity denoted by 'the self', as well as by themes from Kantian ethics, psychoanalytic theory, social psychology, and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action. Two of the essays were selected by the editors of Philosophers' Annual as being among the ten best papers in their year of publication. Aimed primarily at professional philosophers and advanced students, Self to Self will also be of interest to psychologists and others who theorize about the self.

1. Introduction
2. A brief introduction to Kantian ethics
3. The genesis of shame
4. Love as moral emotion
5. The voice of conscience
6. A rational superego
7. Don't worry, feel guilty
8. Self to self
9. The self as narrator
10. From self psychology to moral philosophy
11. The centered self
12. Willing the law
13. Motivation by ideal
14. Identification and identity.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychoanalytical theory [Freudian psychology JMAF], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], History of Western philosophy [HPC]