Philosophy Meets the Infant: How New Research Transforms the Understanding of Human Existence
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 176
- Category :
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