East meets West in this fascinating exploration of conceptions of personal identity in Indian philosophy and modern Euro-American psychology. Author Anand Paranjpe considers these two distinct traditions with regard to historical, disciplinary, and cultural `gaps' in the study of the self, and in the context of such theoretical perspectives as univocalism, relativism, and pluralism. The text includes a comparison of ideas on self as represented by two eminent thinkers-Erik H. Erikson for the Western view, and Advaita Vedanta for the Indian.

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Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

Anand C. Paranjpe

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Book Title: Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought
Authors: Anand C. Paranjpe
Series Title: Path in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b108086
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45844-6Published: 30 September 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3295-2Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47151-3Published: 11 December 2005
Series ISSN: 1574-048X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 416
Topics: Psychology, general, Social Sciences, general

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

The Context of Inquiry

Person, Self, and Identity

Two Perspectives on Person, Self, and Identity

Self-as-Knower

Self-as-enjoyer-sufferer

Self-as-agent

Person, Self, Identity, and Consciousness

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