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Author Sverker, Joseph.

Title Human being and vulnerability : beyond constructivism and essentialism in judith butler, steven pinker, and colin gunton / Joseph Sverker.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Ibidem Press, 2020.

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Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interactive interdisciplinarity and human lived reality -- Social constructivism and biologist essentialism? -- Chapter 1: From interpellated subjecthood to recognized vulnerability -- On the human being, or becoming -- Gendered to be human -- Performativity and human identity -- Relationality and the constitution of humanity -- The problematic body -- Actions -- Judith Butler and the person -- Desire and personhood -- Recognition, personhood and grievability -- Chapter 2: Being human nature -- Language: window to human nature -- Nature/nurture
Unique environment -- Genes, personality and behavior -- Computationalism and the individual -- Webbed causality -- The individual and human nature -- Death of the self again? -- Openness and relationality in evolutionary psychology? -- Chapter 3: Persons becoming in relations -- Ontology of the person -- Relationality, space and freedom -- Personalist and relational theological anthropology -- The divine and the human -- The triune Creator and the anthropological significance of Christ -- Embodied human persons -- "spirit," sin and the question of ethics
Chapter 4: Going beyond: relationality, evolutionary theory and time -- Establishing a weak ontology of relationality -- Re-reading the theory of evolution -- Evolution as performativity -- Time matters -- The reality of body -- Chapter 5: Kenotic personalism -- Primacy of "person"? -- Kenosis, vulnerability and persons: the significance of self-giving relations -- Relation, mediation, interpellation -- Called in time -- The Gift of Vulnerability -- The giving between persons -- Kenosis and feminism -- Kenosis and resistance -- The gift of freedom -- The most vulnerable?
Conclusion: persons, individuals and institutions -- AI: artificial individualism? -- Disclosing the nature/nurture problem -- Back to school -- Individualism and personalism in school -- A love supreme? -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject Philosophy.
Philosophy.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN 9783838273419 (electronic book)
3838273419
Music No. EB00820813 Recorded Books