BAKHTIN, DIALOGUE AND IDENTITY

Conference Reading Materials



1.     Hermanns, J. M. Hubert & Kempen, J. G. Harry.  Introduction, "The Decentralization of the Self," & "The Dialogical Self: Tension between Dominance and Exchange," from The Dialogical Self: Meaning As Movement (Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, 1993).

2.     Morson, Gary Saul & Emerson, Caryl. "Polyphony: Authoring a Hero" from Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 1990).

3.     Morson, Gary Saul.  "Interlude: Bakhtin's Indeterminism" from  Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time.  (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).

4.     Koegler, Hans Herbert:

a. "The Project of a Critical Hermeneutics" from The Power of Dialogue: Critical Hermeneutics after Gadamer and Foucault (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996).
 
b. "Empathy, Dialogical Self, and Reflexive Interpretation: The Symbolic Source of Simulation," from Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences."


5.     McAdams, Dan P.

a. "The Problem of Identity" from Power, Intimacy, and the Life Story: Personological Inquiries into Identity.  New York: The Guilford Press, 1988.

b. "What Do We Know When We Know a Person," Journal of Personality 63:3, September 1995.


6.     Rosenwald, George.  "Conclusion: Reflection on Narrative Self-Understanding," from Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding.

7.     Gregg, Gary.  "Structure, Antistructure, and Nonstructure in Personality" & "A Structural Theory of Self Representation," from Self-Representation:  Life Narrative Studies in Identity and Ideology, New York, Greenwood Press.

8.     Habermas, Juergen.  "Individuation through Socialization: On George Herbert Mead's Theory of Subjectivity" from Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays trans. Mark Hohengarten (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1992).

9.     Jones, Jimmy  "Rousseau's Dialogues."
 

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