The Priority of the Other - Thinking and Living Beyond the Self

The Priority of the Other provides radical reorientation of our most basic ways of making sense of the human condition. By thinking and being Otherwise, he suggests, we can become better attuned to both the world beyond us and the world within.

About the author

Professor of Psychology, Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society, College of the Holy Cross

Summary

The Priority of the Other provides radical reorientation of our most basic ways of making sense of the human condition. By thinking and being Otherwise, he suggests, we can become better attuned to both the world beyond us and the world within.

Additional text

Mark Freeman sets a frame for a poetics of the other with passion and deep conviction. This work is grounded in the postmodern challenge of the core notion of the self that has been the underpinning of the discipline of psychology... The power of The Priority of the Other is that it presents a positive and provocative summons to awaken to the other. It is a summons desperately needed in a world out-of-balance with ego orientation rather than person orientation... Mark Freeman's work is of critical importance to anyone daring to wrestle with the unbouded question of how we can co-construct a world that is inclusive, just and peaceful.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Freeman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.12.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9780199759309
• ISBN: 978-0-19-975930-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Sozialpsychologie, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Philosophy