Teodros Kiros

Self Definition

A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and Global North

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that anatomy and biology frame our gender, sex, and class, but they do not decide our possibilities. Our life-styles are our own constructions and expressions of self-definition. Teodros Kiros supports his argument by a careful reading of the literature from both the Global South and Global North that spans figures, works, and eras from antiquity to our late modern present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 215g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605962
• ISBN-10: 1793605963
• Artikelnr.: 67818925

Autorenporträt

Teodros Kiros is professor of philosophy and literature at Berklee College of Music, a Non Resident Dubois Fellow at Harvard University, host and producer of African Ascent, and author of thirteen books, including Self-Construction and The Formation of Human Values.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One
Chapter 1 The Self in Ancient Egypt
Chapter 2 The Self in Classical Indian Thought
Chapter 3 Sri-Aurobindo
Chapter 4 The Self in Chinese Thought
Chapter 5 Buddhist Innovations
Chapter 6 The Self in Greek Thought
Chapter 7 Race, Sex, and Gender in the Quran
Chapter 8 The Self in the Enlightenment thinkers
Part Two
Chapter 9 Modernity and the Sexed and Gendered bodies
Chapter 10 The Idea of Existential Seriousness/Revolutionary Theory and
Race
Chapter 11 Self-Definition
Conclusion Self-Definition