my mind on books

Here is a list of books on the self, published in 2007-08 or coming soon, the start of a cumulative list. [updated 3/22/08]

2008
Andre Masson and the Surrealist Self by Clark V Poling (New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2008)

Belief about the Self: A Defense of the Property Theory of Content by Neil Feit (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008)

Crossing Horizons: World, Self, and Language in Indian and Western Thought by Shlomo Biderman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)

Cult of the Will: Nervousness and the Forging of a Modern Self in Germany, 1890-1914 by Michael A. Cowan (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008)

Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality, Identity, and the Self by Rita Carter (Little, Brown, 2008)

The Phenomenal Self by Barry Dainton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

2007

Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology and the Elusive Subject by Talia Mae Bettcher (London ; New York : Continuum, 2007).

The Concealed Art of the Soul: Theories of the Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology by Jonardon Ganeri (Oxford : Clarendon, 2007)

Concepts of the Self (Key Concepts) 2nd ed. by Anthony Elliott (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007)

Feeling, Being and the Sense of Self: A New Perspective on Identity, Affect and Narcissistic Disorders by Marcus West (London: Karnac, 2007)

The First Person Singular by Alphonso Lingis (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007).

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R Hofstadter (New York : Basic Books, 2007)

The Messy Self ed. by Jennifer Rosner (Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, 2007). ["an edited volume that challenges the idea and the ideal of a coherent, harmonious self"]

Narrative and Understanding Persons (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement) ed. by Daniel D. Hutto (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

On Willing Selves: Neoliberal Politics and the Challenge of Neuroscience ed. by Sabine Maasen; Barbara Sutter (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Personal Identity, the Self and Ethics by Ferdinand Santos; Santiago Sia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Otherness in Question: Labyrinths of the Self ed. by Livia Mathias Simão; Jaan Valsiner (Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2007).

The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (New Directions in Critical Theory) by Amy Allen (New York : Columbia University Press, 2007)

Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the ‘We’ by Pauliina Remes (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Self and Social Change by Matthew Adams (Los Angeles; London: Sage, 2007)

Self-Consciousness by Sebastian Rödl (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007).

Self-Knowing Agents by Lucy O’Brien (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)

The Situated Self by Jenann Ismael (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)

Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity) ed. by João Gulherme Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)

What Are We?: A Study in Personal Ontology by Eric T. Olson (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)