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The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based on a wide span of sources from medieval Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500, such as archeological evidence, architecture and art, documents, literature, and runic inscriptions. The book engages with major theoretical discussions within the humanities and social sciences, such as cultural theory, practice theory, and cognitive theory. The authors investigate how the various approaches to the self influence our own scholarly mindsets and horizons, and how they condition what aspects of the medieval self are 'visible' to us. Utilizing this insight, we aim to propose a more syncretic approach towards the medieval self, not in order to substitute excellent models already in existence, but in order to foreground the flexibility and the complementarity of the current theories, when these are seen in relationship to each other. The self and how it relates to its surrounding world and history is a main concern of humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the theoretical and methodological flexibility when approaching the medieval self has the potential to raise our awareness of our own position and agency in various social spaces today.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian. --- Medieval Scandinavia. --- interdisciplinarity. --- the self.

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Careers of actors are to a large degree influenced by significant ups and downs. That is why is the profession of the actor is particularly well to study for career decision moments, crises and turning points in a biographical way. Special attention was directed on the auto-genetic aspects of the lives of actors. The main interest focused on topics such as success and failure, objectives and decisions, work ethic, relationship with colleagues, directors and audiences, job search and unemployment, job satisfaction and high and low points of his career. 16 theater and film actors were divided according to their job satisfaction and then qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with them. The analysis was performed by using methods of comparative case report (Jüttemann, 1990) and the circulatory deconstructing (Jaeggi & Faas, 1991). The results are illustrated by themes like "Reasons to be an actor", "A production can be hell" and "Without a safety net" sorted and with numerous examples and interview quotations presented alive.

Sociology: work & labour --- The self, ego, identity, personality

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Building on the thriving discussion on the role of attention within the phenomenological tradition, from Aron Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty to Bernhard Waldenfels, this book investigates the enigmatic role of attention as a faculty that enables change within subjective and intersubjective experience. The aim of the book is to reveal some characteristics of the processes in which subjects are unmade and remade, and to highlight how we are able to change our relation to an empirical world that nevertheless has unity and constancy in our perception. Antony Fredriksson (PhD) is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice. His areas of interest include aesthetics, phenomenology, philosophy of perception, film and philosophy, attention, intersubjectivity, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Ludwig Wittgenstein. .

Philosophy --- Psychology --- psychologie --- filosofie --- existentialisme --- persoonlijkheidsleer --- Phenomenology. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Self. --- Philosophy of the Self.

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The publication of this book, East Asian Philosophies and Psychology: Towards Psychology of Self-cultivation, signifies an important breakthrough for the indigenization movements of psychology which have happened in many non-Western countries since 1980s. Viewing from the perspective of scientific revolution (Kuhn, 1969), when Western paradigms of psychology are transplanted to non-Western countries and encounter anomalies which cannot be explained by the imported theories, the foreign theories are in a state of crisis waiting for scientific revolution.

Mandala Model of the Self --- Buddhism --- Taoism --- Meditation --- Psychology of Self-Cultivation --- Eastern Philosophies --- Nonself --- Confucianism

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"Towering above the swamp of books on Heidegger a work finally tackles, develops and expands Heidegger’s theory of freedom in a systematic fashion. Matthew Barnard’s work is scholarly, rigorous and original and will transform how we understand Heidegger’s philosophy, and most importantly our understanding of the nature of freedom itself." —Dr Patrick O'Connor, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Staffordshire University "This eloquent book convincingly presents the question of freedom as a key to understanding Heidegger's thought through Being and Time towards the Kehre. In so doing, it gives us a fruitful context in which to interpret this pivotal and defining moment of his thinking." —Felix Ó Murchadha, Personal Professor of Philosophy, University of Galway This book is the first monograph in English exclusively dedicated to the exegesis of Martin Heidegger’s radical conception of freedom which was developed in response to the human experience of existential guilt and mortality explained through the phenomena of transcendence and truth. The book is additionally distinctive in that it is the first to approach these issues with the purpose of clarifying the texts involved rather than constructing a novel conception of agency or freedom on the basis of those texts. Heidegger’s Conception of Freedom is ideal for scholars and researchers of philosophy and especially for those focusing on Heidegger's thought, existentialism and phenomenology. Dr Matthew J. Barnard is Lecturer in Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the British Society for Phenomenology.

Philosophy of mind. --- Self. --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy of the Self. --- Liberty --- Philosophy. --- Heidegger, Martin,