Reflexivity and internal conversation in self-help literature - a tentative examination

• Authors: Szymczycha Mateusz

Title variants

PL

Refleksyjność i konwersacja wewnętrzna w literaturze poradnikowej – badania wstępne

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is an analysis of the concepts of authenticity and self-realization presented in self-help books in terms of the modes of reflexivity involved in the pursuit of authentic existence. The source material is analyzed using the concepts of concerns and internal conversation developed by Margaret S. Archer. Advice on how to achieve self-realization is examined using Archer’s notions of communicative, autonomous and meta-reflexivity. Other theoretical inspirations include the insights of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann regarding theories about identity, Nikolas Rose’s remarks on “psy”, as well as Charles Taylor’s reflections on the ethics of authenticity, horizons of intelligibility and free choice as a value.

Keywords

EN

authenticity; self-help; reflexivity; concerns; internal conversation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Uniwersyteckie Czasopismo Socjologiczne
• Year: 2017
• Volume: UCS 2017
• Issue: UCS 2017: 19(2)
• Pages: 17-26

Dates

published

2017-05-08

Contributors

author

Szymczycha Mateusz

References

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• Bellah R. (1985), Habits of the Heart. Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press.
• Berger P., Luckmann T. (1991), The Social Construction of Reality. London: Penguin Books.
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• Lash S., Urry J. (1994), Economies of Signs and Space. London–Thousand Oaks–New Delhi: SAGE Publications.
• Robbins M. (2009), Be Yourself. Everyone Else is Already Taken. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Roberts T. (2009), The Mindfulness Workbook. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications.
• Rose N. (1999), Inventing Ourselves: Psychology, Power and Personhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Taylor C. (2001), Sources of the Self. The Making of the Modern Identity. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
• Taylor C. (2003), The Ethics of Authenticity. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

Notes

PL

Artykuł trzeci z numeru UCS 2017: 19(2)