Gergen, Kenneth J.

Relational being beyond self and community / [electronic resource] : Kenneth J. Gergen. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xxix, 418 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Toward a new Enlightenment -- From bounded to relational being. Bounded being ; In the beginning is the relationship ; The relational self ; The body as relationship : emotion, pleasure, and pain -- Relational being in everyday life. Multi-being and the adventures of everyday life ; Bonds, barricades, and beyond -- Relational being in professional practice. Knowledge as co-creation ; Education in a relational key ; Therapy as relational recovery ; Organizing : the precarious balance -- From the moral to the sacred. Morality : from relativism to relational responsibility ; Approaching the sacred -- Epilogue: The coming of relational consciousness.


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Psychology--Philosophy.
Self.
Individualism.


Electronic books.

BF38 / .G46 2009eb

150.1