ABSTRACT

Building on contributions from sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, and neuroscience, Henricks develops a more general account of how people discover and reproduce the "meanings" of their involvements with others. Among its many themes are treatments of selves as "projections of personhood," of the ways in which self-expression has changed historically and is now experienced in our electronically mediated era, of emotions as "framing judgments," and of ritual, play, communitas, and work as four distinctive "pathways of experience."

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|34 pages

Framing Experience

chapter 3|24 pages

Selves as Projections of Personhood

chapter 4|26 pages

New Settings for Self-Expression

chapter 5|25 pages

Emotions as Forms of Self-Awareness

chapter 6|29 pages

Emotions and Social Order

chapter 7|26 pages

Dissatisfaction, Disorder, and Desire

chapter 8|27 pages

Behavioral Pathways