In order to explain why the notion of multiple selves has become more widely accepted, Baggini dredges up the demon of postmodernism (it's apparent, as speculated above, that he is not a fan of this developmental stage in culture and philosophy). Postmodernism rejects ideas of a single grand narrative to explain all of history, or all of science, or even the self. In postmodern theory, no one story is more right than another - every event can be seen from multiple narrative perspectives, which takes us back to Jerome Bruner's narrative construction of reality.
Integral Options Cafe: Observations on The Ego Trick, Part Three: This is part 3 of many installments in my process/review of Julian Baggini's The Ego Trick: In Search of the Self . There is as much person...
Thursday, June 21, 2012
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