This interdisciplinary subject considers significant social, political, and philosophical questions about the self. The subject first analyses new political identities and their representations. Turning to sociology, the subject analyses public forms of identification such as race, nation, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and culture in organising people's experience of everyday life and politics. Then, drawing on contemporary analytic metaphysics, the subject considers philosophical issues concerning the very nature of the self, including self-deception, the persistence of the self through time, and the relationship between selfhood and moral agency. The subject will conclude with a reflection on contrasting multi-disciplinary perspectives on the self.
HD/FL
One session
School of Social Work and Arts
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