
The Dialogical Self
Meaning as Movement
- 1st Edition - August 20, 1993
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Hubert J.M. Hermans, Harry J.G. Kempen
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 5 4 7 - 6
Contemporary research in personality, social psychology, and sociology has renewed an interest in the "self." This volume argues that the "self" may consist of multiple "selves"… Read more

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Request a sales quoteContemporary research in personality, social psychology, and sociology has renewed an interest in the "self." This volume argues that the "self" may consist of multiple "selves" any of which may interact with each other in a dialogical fashion. The "self" is presented as a non-unitary embodiment that transcends the limits of individualism and rationalism. Beginning with a philosophic discussion of the "self," this volume discusses the decentralization of the "self" in narrative psychology, the retreat of the omniscient narrator in literary sciences, the genesis of self-knowledge in children, and the concept of modern society as a multiplicity of collective voices.
Graduate students and academia in social psychology and the study of personality, particularly the organization and development of self, and the relationship between mind, self, and society.
Vico Versus Descartes.
The Narrative Construction of Reality.
The Decentralization of the Self.
Developments in Modern Novelistic Literature.
The Dialogical Self: Tension between Dominance and Exchange.
Dynamics and Synthesis of the Self.
Self and Society: A Reexamination of Mead.
Psychology's Three Separations: Division versus Cross-Fertilization.
The Construction and Co-Construction of Meaning: Explorations into a Psychology of Valuation.
Chapter Notes.
Coda.
Appendix.
References.
Tables.
Figures.
Subject Index.
The Narrative Construction of Reality.
The Decentralization of the Self.
Developments in Modern Novelistic Literature.
The Dialogical Self: Tension between Dominance and Exchange.
Dynamics and Synthesis of the Self.
Self and Society: A Reexamination of Mead.
Psychology's Three Separations: Division versus Cross-Fertilization.
The Construction and Co-Construction of Meaning: Explorations into a Psychology of Valuation.
Chapter Notes.
Coda.
Appendix.
References.
Tables.
Figures.
Subject Index.
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 20, 1993
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 195
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780128015476
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Hubert J.M. Hermans
Affiliations and expertise
University of Nijmegen, The NetherlandsHK
Harry J.G. Kempen
Affiliations and expertise
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands