Being Yourself: Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life

by Diana Tietjens Meyers

Book Overview

Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self -- the individual who acts -- together with questions about self-expression -- the relations between the self and action. It explains self-knowledge and self-direction in terms of a repertory of skills that gives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742514781
• ISBN13: 9780742514782
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"