Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning

Timothy Stephen, PhD, is professor of communication at University at Albany (SUNY) specializing in the interrelationships of language, mind, culture, the self-concept, and intimacy, and, particularly, in the way in which communication in intimacy produces shared mind.

1. Interpersonal Climate Change; Part 1: Language, Mind, and Intimacy; 2. A Change of Mind; 3. Signals to Symbols: The Awakening of Intimate Experience; Part 2: The Origins of Uncertainty; 4. Through the Rear-View Mirror; 5. Recipe for Existential Crisis: Step 1. Undermine Certainty and Truth; 6. Recipe for Existential Crisis: Step 2. Weaken Neighbourhood Ties; 7. Recipe for Existential Crisis: Step 3. Foster Isolation; Part 3: The Shape of the Modern Self; 8. Selfie Nation; 9. Self from the Inside Out: Language, Mind, and the Sense of Self; 10. From the Basement Up: Modernity, the Self, and the Unconscious Mind; 11. And from the Outside In: Influences of Work, Technology, and Societal Institutions; 12. We Are Each Other: The Dawn of the Interpersonal Self; 13. Multi-Me: Self, Intimacy, and Loss; 14. Mini-Me: Wrong Ideas about Communication, Self, and Intimacy; Chapter Notes; Bibliography.