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A presentation of the nature of human agency and the individual's own experience of himself as an agent. This work questions activity, the self and its presence. It offers an understanding of what it is to be alienated from oneself, incorporating issues such as human freedom and self-deception.

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...a novel and important work...Develops an intriguing and novel theory of self and action, and deals with a wide range of literature, relating it in ways that nobody else has done...I would think that Segal's position would become in time one of the basic positions in the philosophy of action taught in graduate schools and referred to in the literature.--Professor Terry P. Pinkard

...a refreshingly novel sort of book...Segal has made a major contribution to the phenomenology of action. Canadian Philosophical Reviews ...a novel and important work...Develops an intriguing and novel theory of self and action, and deals with a wide range of literature, relating it in ways that nobody else has done...I would think that Segal's position would become in time one of the basic positions in the philosophy of action taught in graduate schools and referred to in the literature. -- Professor Terry P. Pinkard, Georgetown University Segal's primary focus is on the nature of activity...Accessible to advanced undergraduates. CHOICE

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Jerome Segal is a research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland.

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