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Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals is an invitation to readers to consider factoring in the often discarded or censored but useful information held by the dominated. The book's principal claim is that the unsaid weighs in significantly on the scale of semantic construction as that which is said. Thus, it legitimates the impact of the absentee in broadening and clarifying knowledge and understanding in most disciplines. In other words, just as exogenous epistemologies have underlain and explicated the basis for understanding diverse encounters-social, political, historical, cultural, literary, etc.-Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals challenges, from a pluridisciplinary angle, such highly dominant approaches to investigating the origin, nature, ways of knowing, and limits of human knowledge. It thus yields to the deontological basis to critically reexamine our understanding of the world around us. It is in this regard that the present volume points towards the need for human history to become a cumulative record and re-recording of every human journey and endeavor in life; it brings together disparate voices illuminating topical issues that would be or have been legated to posterity as nonexistent, partial, or half-truths.

Criticism. --- Africans in literature. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Technique --- Evaluation

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Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as enemies in nearly every camp from empiricism to poststructuralism. Polyvalent, with an uncertain referent, and often overshadowed by intuition, perception, or cognition, sensation invites as much metaphysical speculation as it does dismissive criticism. The promise of sensation has certainly not been lost on the phenomenologists who have sought to 'rehabilitate' the concept. In Plastic Bodies, Tom Sparrow argues that the phenomenologists have not gone far enough, however. Alongside close readings of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, he digs into an array of ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in search of the resources needed to rebuild the concept of sensation after phenomenology. He begins to assemble a speculative aesthetics that is at once a realist theory of sensation and a philosophy of embodiment that breaks the form of the 'lived' body. Maintaining that the body is fundamentally plastic and that corporeal identity is constituted by a conspiracy of sensations, he pursues the question of how the body fits into/fails to fit into its aesthetic environment and what must be done to increase the body’s power to act and exist.

Phenomenology. --- Senses and sensation. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Sensation --- Sensory biology --- Sensory systems --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Perception --- levinas --- merleau-ponty --- phenomenology --- sensation --- Consciousness --- Edmund Husserl --- Emmanuel Levinas --- Immanuel Kant --- Lived body --- Maurice Merleau-Ponty --- Ontology

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This book is a study of cultures of surveillance, from CCTV to genetic data-gathering and the new forms of subjectivity and citizenship that are forged in such cultures. It studies data, bodies and space as domains within which this subjectivity of the vulnerable individual emerges. The book also proposes that we can see a shift within cultures of surveillance where, from active participation in the process of surveilling, a witness-citizen emerges. The book therefore seeks to alter surveillance as a mere top-down system, instead arguing that surveillance is also a mode of engagement with the world enabling trust, accountability and eventually a responsible humanitarianism.

Electronic surveillance --- Citizenship --- Social control. --- Information society. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Sociology --- Information superhighway --- Social conflict --- Liberty --- Pressure groups --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Social aspects. --- Law and legislation

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Post-structural and post-modern theories have understood the concept of gender as a "fictitious" element rooted exclusively in a linguistic reality (see Butler, 1990), constituted by an illusory metaphysic of substances. Therefore, for these schools, "there is no gender identity behind the expression of gender" and consequently, gender is exclusively "performatively constituted" (Butler, 1990, 25), mainly as an "effect" of discursive practices. However, if we consider narrative in its wider anthropological sense, we should include not only non-verbal narratives, but also what the anthropology

Sociolinguistics --- Narrative inquiry (Research method) --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Intercultural communication --- Social aspects --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Narrative analysis (Research method) --- Narrative research (Research method) --- Narratological inquiry (Research method) --- Research --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Social aspects. --- Anthropological aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Sociolinguistics - Pacific Area --- Narrative inquiry (Research method) - Pacific Area --- Identity (Philosophical concept) - Social aspects --- Intercultural communication - Social aspects --- Intercultural communication - Pacific Area

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Is each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves, or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided and possibly harmful? Are selves and persons the same thing? And what does the possibility of sudden death mean for our ability to understand the narrative of ourselves?For the first time, this collection brings together figures in contemporary philosophy and Kierkegaard studies to explore pressing questions like these in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology. These essays will both advance important ongoing discussions of selfhood and expand the light that, 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems.

Self --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Self-knowledge, Theory of --- Individuality --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Psychology --- Conformity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Likes and dislikes --- Personality --- Introspection (Theory of knowledge) --- Knowledge, Reflexive --- Knowledge of self, Theory of --- Reflection (Theory of knowledge) --- Reflexive knowledge --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Personality (Theory of knowledge) --- Self (Philosophy) --- Identity --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Mind and body --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Kierkegaard, Søren, --- Kierkegaard, Søren --- Anti-climacus --- H. H. --- 1 KIERKEGAARD, SOREN --- 1 KIERKEGAARD, SOREN Filosofie. Psychologie--KIERKEGAARD, SOREN --- Filosofie. Psychologie--KIERKEGAARD, SOREN --- Kierkegaard, Søren. --- Self. --- Self-knowledge, Theory of. --- Individuality. --- Anti-Climacus, --- Bogbinder, Hilarius, --- Chʻi-kʻo-kuo, --- Climacus, Johannes, --- Constantius, Constantin, --- Eremita, Victor, --- Haufniensis, Vigilius, --- Johannes, Climacus, --- Johannes de Silentio, --- Kʹerkegor, Seren, --- Kierkegaard, S. --- Kierkegaard, Severino, --- Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye, --- K'i︠e︡rkegor, Sʹoren, --- Kīrkajūrd, Sūrīn, --- Kirkegaard, Soeren, --- Kirkegor, Seren, --- Ḳirḳegor, Sern, --- Kirkegors, Sērens, --- Kirukegōru, Søren, --- Kjerkegor, Seren, --- Kʻo-erh-kʻai-ko-erh, --- Notabene, Nicolaus, --- Silentio, Johannes de, --- Sūrīn Kīrkajūrd, --- Victor, Eremita, --- Vigilius, Haufniensis, --- קירקגור, סרן --- קירקגור, סורן --- קירקגור, סירן --- קירקגור, סירן, --- קירקגורד, סרן, --- 克尓凯郭尓, --- Kierkegaard, Sren,