{"title":"Selves Beyond the Skin: Watsuji, 'Betweenness', and Self-Loss in Solitary Confinement and Dementia","authors":"Joel Krueger","doi":"10.53765/20512201.31.5.127","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: I develop Tetsurō Watsuji's relational model of the self as 'betweenness'. After some background, I argue that Watsuji's view receives support from two case studies: solitary confinement and dementia. Both clarify the constitutive interdependence between the self and\n the social and material contexts of 'betweenness' that define its lifeworld. They do so by providing powerful examples of what happens when the support and regulative grounding of this lifeworld is restricted or taken away. I argue further that Watsuji's view helps see the other side of this\n deprivation, how reconstructing aspects of betweenness is, at the same time, a reconstruction of the self. I conclude by briefly indicating further consequences of this view.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.31.5.127","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: I develop Tetsurō Watsuji's relational model of the self as 'betweenness'. After some background, I argue that Watsuji's view receives support from two case studies: solitary confinement and dementia. Both clarify the constitutive interdependence between the self and
the social and material contexts of 'betweenness' that define its lifeworld. They do so by providing powerful examples of what happens when the support and regulative grounding of this lifeworld is restricted or taken away. I argue further that Watsuji's view helps see the other side of this
deprivation, how reconstructing aspects of betweenness is, at the same time, a reconstruction of the self. I conclude by briefly indicating further consequences of this view.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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