Although it has attracted little attention in travel writing scholarship, John Locke’s notion of personal identity has been examined by literary scholars (Borsing 2017; Fox 1982, 1988; MacLean 1962: 99–102; Tuveson 1960: 27–30; Watt 1957: 18
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Matthew Binney
Cameron Bassiri
independently of a clearly determined personal identity. 22 The spontaneity of the utterance or possible drafting of a document requiring the signatures of all members ossifies, transforming the initial spontaneous act of expression into an inert fixture that
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–96 (17 total)
Personal identity and ethnic ambiguity
Naming practices among the Eurasians of Macao*
JOĀO PINA‐CABRAL and NELSON LOURENÇO
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Jun 1994
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 115–132 (17 total)
Marilyn Strathern
issue neither began nor ended with early modern writers, but they provided a new vocabulary for it. This put questions about persons into a wider field of inquiry concerning the identity of things. Personal identity or the self, one well-known English
Durkheim's 'Dualism of Human Nature'
Personal Identity and Social Links
Giovanni Paoletti
Durkheim's 'Dualism of Human Nature' (1914) is the last scientific work by him published in his lifetime. This circumstance, and the subject of the essay, can suggest it is the definitive exposition of his philosophical view of human nature as homo duplex. But readers do not agree about the description of this view. What kind of dualism has he in mind, and is he consistent about it throughout his work? The problem is that his essay gives different meanings to the doubleness of human nature and combines them in a complex model of explanation. Reconstructing this model can throw new light on what is really at stake in Durkheim's text and on the nature of the dualism he upheld at the end of his career.
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 61–80 (20 total)
Travel, Authority, and Framing the Subject
Elizabeth Justice’s A Voyage to Russia and Amelia
Matthew W. Binney
and delineates a distinct perspective from which they experience phenomena. John Locke’s “revolutionary” and influential notion of personal identity ( Thiel 1998: 868 ) demonstrates how an environment defines one’s perspective and sense of self. 4
Matt Eshleman, Mark William Westmoreland, and Yiwei Zheng
Stephen Wang, Aquinas and Sartre: On Freedom, Personal Identity and the Possibility of Happiness Review by Matt Eshleman
Jonathan Judaken, ed. Race After Sartre: Antiracism, African Existentialism, Postcolonialism Review by Mark William Westmoreland
Anthony Hatzimoysis, The Philosophy of Sartre Review by Yiwei Zheng
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 127–138 (12 total)
Simon Beck
Raymond Martin’s Self-Concern (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998)1 sets out to put the debate around personal identity on to a new footing. He acknowledges the ground-breaking work of Derek Parfit which shifted the general focus from questions of strict identity to the question of what it is that really should matter in survival, but he thinks the focus should shift further than just this. His book sets out to endorse ‘a shift in the philosophical debate from the normative question of whether this or that should matter in survival to the largely descriptive question of what … actually does or might be brought to matter’ (x).
Memory, imagination, and belonging across generations
Perspectives from postsocialist Europe and beyond
Haldis Haukanes and Susanna Trnka
The last two decades have witnessed a phenomenal expansion of scholarly work on collective memory. Simultaneously, increasing anthropological attention is being paid to collective visions of the future, albeit through a range of disparate literatures on topics including development, modernity and risk, the imagination, and, perhaps ironically, nostalgia. In this introduction to this special section, we bring together analyses of postsocialist visions of pasts and futures to shed light upon the cultural scripts and social processes through which different temporal visions are ascribed collective meaning, employed in the creation of shared and personal identities, and used to galvanize social and political action.
Evenki Adolescents’ Identities
Negotiating the Modern and the Traditional in Educational Settings
Svetlana Huusko
Abstract
Young Evenkis grow up in the middle of powerful colonial representations of their culture, community, and history. These are constructed in and disseminated through popular oral culture, education, museums, and shape both Russian ideas of Evenkis and the self-identity of the indigenous youth. This article discusses how the Evenki adolescents construct their personal identities and negotiate with dominant representations of Evenkiness within educational settings in Russia. When the indigenous culture is represented as locked in the past, the adolescents, while identifying themselves as indigenous, view themselves outside the culture. Fieldwork results show how the local approach to understanding “tradition” and “modernity” leads to the marginalization of indigenous culture and to assimilation among Evenki adolescents in Buriatiia, Russia.