Philosophy Meets the Infant: How New Research Transforms the Understanding of Human Existence

Author(s) : Stephen Langfur

Philosophy Meets the Infant: How New Research Transforms the Understanding of Human Existence

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 162
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Child and Adolescent Studies
  • Catalogue No : 98056
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032895277
  • ISBN 10 : 1032895276

Table of Contents


Part One: The You-I Event in infancy and why it disappears
1. Introducing the You-I Event
2. Born to connect
3. Becoming I through a You
4. Counterfeiting the You-I Event

Part Two: The You-I Event after infancy
5. Heidegger’s hammer and the spectral You
6. Love and the precluded You
7. The split-off self in action
8. The You-I Event in art
9. The You-I Event in conversation

Part Three: Philosophical issues
10. Other accounts of self-awareness
11. Free will and the You-I account
13. God or the precluded You
14. What can be done

Appendix: Replies to imagined critics
Acknowledgements
Index

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