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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

You have a self-esteem scaleif I score a 10 and you score an 8, does that mean I have more self-esteem than you? One of the books we read together was Charles Taylors Sources of the Self , which is a landmark in hermeneutic thought. Over time, what it means to be a self has shifted dramatically. Can you quantify justice?