Books like John Macmurray

Loved John Macmurray by David Fergusson? Here are 8 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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1I and Thou
I and Thou
Martin Buber
A foundational dialogical account of persons defined by their relations to others, close to Macmurray's emphasis on the personal.
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2The Self as Agent
The Self as Agent
John MacMurray
Macmurray's own account of the self as an agent acting in the world, the primary source for the ideas this study examines.
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3Persons in Relation
Persons in Relation
John Macmurray
Macmurray's Gifford Lectures on how persons are formed through relationship, the central idea behind his personalism.
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4Being and Having
Being and Having
Gabriel Marcel
A personalist reflection on the difference between possessing things and being a person, which parallels Macmurray's critique of the self as possession.
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5Personalism
Personalism
Emmanuel Mounier
A short statement of the personalist movement in twentieth-century France, placing the personal at the center of social and moral life.
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6Totality and Infinity
Totality and Infinity
Emmanuel Levinas
A major philosophy of the face-to-face encounter with another person, which engages the same questions about the self and the other.
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7The Sickness Unto Death
The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Kierkegaard
A classic account of the self as a relation that must be grounded, useful for comparing how different thinkers define personhood.
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8Sources of the Self
Sources of the Self
Charles Taylor
A study of how modern identity has been formed, covering many of the same questions about selfhood and the good that Macmurray addressed.
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