The future of post-human personality [[electronic resource] ] : a preface to a new theory of normality and abnormality / / Peter Baofu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824004103321
• Autore: Baofu Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, UK, : Cambridge International Science Pub., 2010
• ISBN: 1-283-01220-0; 9786613012203; 1-907343-13-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (469 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.7
• Soggetti: Personality; Individuality
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Part One: Introduction -- Part Two: ormality -- Part Three: Abnormality -- Part Four: Conclusion -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION-THE PERPLEXITY OF PERSONALITY -- The Political Correctness of a Fascinating Idea -- Different Definitions of Normality and Abnormality -- Different Definitions of Normality -- Different Definitions of Abnormality -- The Varieties of Normal and Abnormal Characters -- The Varieties of Normal Characters -- The Varieties of Abnormal Characters -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Mental Argument -- The Natural Argument -- The Social Argument -- The Cultural Argument -- The Contrarian Argument -- The Contrarian Theory of Personality -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples -- Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis -- Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- ; The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO. Normality -- CHAPTER 2 NORMALITY AND ITS DOUBLE SIDES -- The Convenience of Normality -- Normality and the Mind -- Normality, and the Social Psychology of Conformity -- Normality, and the Biopsychology of Conformity -- Normality and nature -- Normality, and the Stoic Conformity with the Universe -- Normality, and the Implications of Animal Conformity -- Normality and Society -- Normality, and the Politics of Thought Reform.; Conformity, and the Sociopolitics of Heteronormativity -- Normality and Culture -- Normality, and Cultural Assimilation -- The Mediocrity of Normality -- PART THREE Abnormality -- CHAPTER 3 ABNORMALITY AND ITS DUAL FACES -- The Functionality of Abnormality -- Abnormality and the Mind -- Abormality, and the Discourse on Mental Disability -- Abnormality, and the Controversy about Mental Disorders -- Abnormality and Nature -- Abnormality, and the Chemicals in Psychiatric Medication -- Abnormality, and the Disharmony with the Cosmos -- Abnormality and Society -- Abnormality, and the Social Structure of Suicide -- Abnormality, and the Institution of Involuntary Commitment -- Abnormality and Culture -- Abnormality, and the Variation of Cultural Traditions -- The Dysfunctionality of Normality -- PART FOUR Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION -THE FUTURE OF PERSONALITY -- The False Dichotomy of Normality and Abnormality -- Other Relevant Principles -- 1st Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle -- 4th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle -- 6th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle -- 7th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle -- 8th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle -- 9th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle -- 10th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle -- 11th Thesis: The Post-Human Remolding -- Beyond Normality and Abnormality -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.