Relational Being Beyond Self and Community

Name: Relational Being Beyond Self and Community
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ISBN: 9780199846269

ISBN-10: 019984626X

ISBN-13: 9780199846269

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kenneth J. Gergen

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Relational Being first builds on the broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Speaking to scholars and social practitioners, the work sets out to develop and illustrate a far more radical and potentially exciting landscape of relational thought and practice. It carves out a space of understanding in which relational process stands prior to the very concept of the individual. More broadly, the book attempts to develop a thoroughgoing relational account of human activity.As Gergen proposes, all meaning grows from coordinated action, or coaction, and thus, all that we hold to be real,…

Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.298

Kenneth J. Gergen is Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore college, USA.CONTRIBUTORS' AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA:Lisa Warhus University of Aarhus