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Being Yourself
Diana Tietjens Meyers
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Description for Being Yourself
Hardback. Series: Feminist Constructions. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 549.
Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self — the individual who acts — together with questions about self-expression — the relations between the self and action. It explains self-knowledge and self-direction in terms of a repertory of skills that gives people insight into who they are, who they want to be, and how they want to engage with the world. Unlike other accounts of self ... Read more
Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self — the individual who acts — together with questions about self-expression — the relations between the self and action. It explains self-knowledge and self-direction in terms of a repertory of skills that gives people insight into who they are, who they want to be, and how they want to engage with the world. Unlike other accounts of self ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Feminist Constructions
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742514775
SKU
V9780742514775
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About Diana Tietjens Meyers
Diana Tietjens Meyers is professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Reviews for Being Yourself
Diana Tietjens Meyers is one of the most subtle and complex philosophers of feminist autonomy and agency writing today. In this book, she has presented a powerful analysis of the forms of autonomy in contemporary social life, and the impasses, ruses, and limitations that can impede autonomous agency. An original contribution to one of the most vexing and contested concepts ... Read more