(P/B) RELATIONAL BEING

Παρουσίαση

'Relational Being' first builds on the broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Speaking to scholars and social practitioners, the work sets out to develop and illustrate a far more radical and potentially exciting landscape of relational thought and practice. It carves out a space of understanding in which relational process stands prior to the very concept of the individual. More broadly, the book attempts to develop a thoroughgoing relational account of human activity.
As Gergen proposes, all meaning grows from coordinated action, or coaction, and thus, all that we hold to be real, rational, and valuable depends on the well-being of our relationships. Gergen reconstitutes "the mind" as a manifestation of relationships and bears out these ideas in everyday life and professional practices, including psychotherapy, collaborative classrooms, and organizational development. He questions the idea of mental illness, and focuses on therapy as a means of fostering relational recovery. Gergen also explores the ways in which what we call "knowledge" issues from communities, rather than from individual minds. The volume concludes with an innovative exploration of moral action and spirituality. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Prologue: Toward a New Enlightenment
Part I: From Bounded to Relational Being
Chapter 1 - Bounded Being
Chapter 2 - In the Beginning Is the Relationship
Chapter 3 - The Relational Self
Chapter 4 - The Body as Relationship: Emotion, Pleasure, and Pain
Part II: Relational Being in Everyday Life
Chapter 5 - Multi-Being and the Adventures of Everyday Life
Chapter 6 - Bonds, Barricades, and Beyond
Part III Relational Being in Professional Practice
Chapter 7 - Knowledge as Co-Creation
Chapter 8 - Education in a Relational Key
Chapter 9 - Therapy as Relational Recovery
Chapter 10 - Organizing: The Precarious Balance
Part IV From the Moral to the Sacred
Chapter 11- Morality: From Relativism to Relational Responsibility
Chapter 12 - Approaching the Sacred
Epilogue: The Coming of Relational Consciousness