At the University of Chicago, where I began to reflect on the issues at hand, I wish to thank especially Bert Cohler, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jacob Getzels, Peter Homans, Paul Ricoeur, Rick Shweder, David Tracy, and Marvin Zonis, ...
It may thus be stated that, by and large, rabbinic Midrashic tradition of hermeneutic pluralism, which accepted both the ... event, biography, or ideological doctrine that is not updated via reinterpretation may be viewed as “Karaistic.
Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience.
Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative
Rewriting the Self offers a challenge to the received version of the 'ascent of western man'. Lively and controversial, the book broaches big questions in an accessible way.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Living through Midrashic Interpretation -- 2 Narrative "Missionarism" in Dialectic ...
A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the Western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Highly esteemed contributors analyse differing models of personal identity from a variety of perspectives.
This volume is the third in a trilogy (the previous two, Damnation and Deviance and Hasidic Psychology, are also published by Transaction) that seeks to present a "dialogistic" psychology as an alternative framework to the perspective that ...