{"product_id":"philosophy-meets-the-infant","title":"Philosophy Meets The Infant","description":"\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395805323646,"sku":"NW9781032895277","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781032895277.jpg?v=1778626291","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/philosophy-meets-the-infant","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}