Description: The Importance of How We See Ourselves: Self-Identity and Responsible Agency analyzes the nature of the self and the phenomena of self-awareness and self-identity in an attempt to offer insight into the practical role self-conceptions play in moral development and responsible agency.
Review Quotes:
"This is a thoughtful account of the role of socially sensitive self-reflection in forming responsible agency." --Amelie Rorty, Boston University and Harvard Medical School
"This is a very well-written and well-researched book. Oshana uses vivid, compelling examples to pull together the complexities of worries about the nature and ownership of the self, psychological health and illness, and responsibility for one's actions. Importantly, the book does not pretend to solve every puzzle or to offer certainties where only further questions remain, and I take such honesty, and such appreciation of the complexity of the subject matter, to be both a welcome addition to the literature, as well as a great credit to the author in general. The Importance of How We See Ourselves will add an important voice and perspective to the literature on identity, agency, memory, and moral psychology." --Anna Gotlib, JD, PhD, associate professor, philosophy, Brooklyn College CUNY "This book significantly advances our understanding of the vexed question of agency through a nicely realistic account of self-awareness and social identity. Okshana makes a persuasive case." --Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College