{"product_id":"philosophy-meets-the-infant-how-new-research-transforms-the-understanding-of-human-existence-paperback","title":"Philosophy Meets the Infant: How New Research Transforms the Understanding of Human Existence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Langfur\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfancy research and philosophy explore \"first things,\" yet few books bring the two fields into contact. Stephen Langfur's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy Meets the Infant\u003c\/i\u003e integrates groundbreaking infancy studies of the last 50 years to offer a fresh exploration of our drive for human connection. He begins with a new understanding of self-awareness, which he locates in reciprocal attention between baby and caregiver. Instead of \"I think, therefore I am,\" the new research supports \"You attend, therefore I am.\" The event of becoming self-aware through another is termed a \"You-I Event.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea is counterintuitive: we are perfectly self-aware when alone! To explain the change after infancy, Langfur makes transformative use of an old psychoanalytic finding. With the onset of language, a child internalizes (introjects) the most important You's, playing them toward herself in speech. Instead of the original You-I Event, we have its counterfeit in our heads. Nevertheless, a longing for the true Event persists in the unconscious; individual chapters trace this longing in work, love, art, conversation, and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized into three parts (\"The You-I Event in infancy and why it disappears,\" \"The You-I Event after infancy,\" and \"Philosophical Issues\"), this book will be of keen interest to philosophers, infancy researchers, and anyone seeking new light on the major questions of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Langfur, \u003c\/b\u003e PhD, has published widely in phenomenology and psychology journals. \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy Meets the Infant\u003c\/i\u003e is Langfur's first book-length treatment of what he calls the You-I Event, in which self-awareness originates and develops through the attentions of others. He has also authored the philosophical memoir \u003cem\u003eConfession from a Jericho Jail\u003c\/em\u003e (Grove-Weidenfeld 1992, Fomite 2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 166\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377648951603,"sku":"9781032895277","price":84.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ku6L8okzb69781032895277.webp?v=1779326027","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/philosophy-meets-the-infant-how-new-research-transforms-the-understanding-of-human-existence-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}