Dialogical Essays: From Difference to Sharing in I-Other Relationships

This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the  theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in  psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr.  Lívia Mathias Simão, senior professor at the Institute of Psychology of  the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In each of the five essays  included in this book, the author establishes a dialogue with key  thinkers and intellectual traditions of dialogical approaches arriving  at core points of I-other relationships according to the perspective of  semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology.
The first essay  establishes a dialogue with Greek philosophers such as Parmenides and  Aristotle. In the second essay this dialogue is established with  semiotic-constructivist psychologists such as Jaan Valsiner, Ragnar  Rommetveit and Ivana Marková. The third essay is a dialogue with the  contributions of Ernst Boesch’s symbolic action theory. The fourth essay  proposes a dialogue between semiotic-cultural constructivists and  Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics. Finally, the fifth essay proposes how  the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas contributes to dialogical studies of  I-other in the context of semiotic-cultural constructivism.

Originally  published in Portuguese for the Brazilian market, Dialogical Essays:  From Difference to Sharing in I-Other Relationships is now published in  English in an international edition that will be of interest to  psychologists, philosophers, historians and other human and social  scientists interested in epistemological, ontological and ethical  aspects of I-other relationships from the perspective of  semiotic-cultural constructivism and cultural psychology.