Self-Conciousness and Self-Determination

Ernst Tugendhat's study is a unique synthesis of the contemporary, Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical problems. It brings the methods of linguistic analysis to bear on such epistemological, moral, and metaphysical issues as the meaning and interconnections of self knowledge, ego identity, rational self-understanding, and freedom of the will. In this context the views of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Mead, and Hegel are searchingly examined. The philosophical testimony of Kierkegaard, Freud, Habermas, and others is also presented and weighed. Ernst Tugendhat is Professor of Philosophy at the Freie Universitat in Berlin. Self Consciousness and Self-Determinationis included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthyTugendhat, Ernst is the author of 'Self-Conciousness and Self-Determination', published 1989 under ISBN 9780262700382 and ISBN 0262700387.