This is a workshop with Prof. Bennett Helm about his recent book.
Places are limited\, so please contactchristopher.cowley@ucd.ieif you wish \;to take part.
On Friday 2 November (all day) and Saturday 3 November (morning)\, Prof. \;Bennett Helm will be coming to University College Dublin to attend a \;workshop on his recent book Love\, Friendship and the Self\; \;Intimacy\,Identification and the Social Nature of Persons (OUP 2010). \;
The workshop will comprise presentations on aspects of the book by the \;following four people:
Here is the book's Amazon page:
\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Friendship-Self-Intimacy-Identification/dp/0199642567/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&\;qid=1343047556&\;sr=8-1
Book blurb:
Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the individualistic \;strand in our understanding of persons at the expense of the social strand. \;Thus\, it is generally thought that persons are self-determining and \;autonomous\, where these are understood to be capacities we exercise most \;fully on our own\, apart from others\, whose influence on us tends to \;undermine that autonomy. Love\, Friendship\, and the Self argues that we must \;reject a strongly individualistic conception of persons if we are to make \;sense of significant interpersonal relationships and the importance they can \;have in our lives. It presents a new account of love as intimate \;identification and of friendship as a kind of plural agency\, in each case \;grounding and analyzing these notions in terms of interpersonal emotions. At \;the center of this account is an analysis of how our emotional connectedness \;with others is essential to our very capacities for autonomy and \;self-determination: we are rational and autonomous only because of and \;through our inherently social nature. By focusing on the role that \;relationships of love and friendship have both in the initial formation of \;our selves and in the on-going development and maturation of adult persons\, \;Helm significantly alters our understanding of persons and the kind of \;psychology we persons have as moral and social beings.
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