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Others in mind : social origins of self-consciousness

Author

Rochat, Philippe, 1950-

Title

Others in mind : social origins of self-consciousness / Philippe Rochat.

Format

Book

Published

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Description

x, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : main ideas
• Self-conscious species
• Six propositions
• Variety of self-reflective mind states
• Mind states in development
• Birth of self-consciousness
• Shame and self-knowledge
• Roots of guilt
• Giving and sharing
• Origins of owning and sharing
• Social construction of identity
• Conclusion : moral space and the self.

Subject headings

Self-consciousness (Sensitivity) Self-knowledge, Theory of. Self--Social aspects.

ISBN

9780521506359 (hardback) 0521506352 (hardback) 9780521729659 (pbk.) 0521729653 (pbk.)