The Oxford Handbook of the Self

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Abstract: Introduction: A Diversity of Selves – History as Prologue: Western Theories of the Self – What is it Like to be a Newborn? – Self-Recognition – Self in the Brain – The Embodied Self – Bodily Awareness and Self-Consciousness – The Sense of Body Ownership – Phenomenological Dimensions of Bodily Self-Consciousness – Witnessing from Here: Self-Awareness from a Bodily versus Embodied Perspective – The Minimal Subject – The No-Self Alternative – Buddhist Non-Self: The No-Owner's Manual – Unity of Consciousness and the Problem of Self – Personal Identity – On What we are – On Knowing one's Self – The Narrative Self – The Unimportance of Identity – Self-Agency – Self-Control in Action – Moral Responsibility and the Self – The Structure of Self-Consciousness in Schizophrenia – Multiple Selves – Autism and the Self – The Self: Growth, Integrity, and Coming Apart – Our Glassy Essence: The Fallible Self in Pragmatist Thought – The Social Construction of Self – The Dialogical Self: A Process of Positioning in Space and Time – Glass Selves: Emotions, Subjectivity, and the Research Process – The Postmodern Self: An Essay on Anachronism and Powerlessness – Self, Subjectivity, and the Instituted Social Imaginary