Zahavi Dan Subjectivity and Selfhood. Investigating the First-Person Perspective. The MIT Press, 2008

Systematic research of “first-person” perspective in a monograph continues the old debate about the scientific status of introspection, its peculiarities, and in the interpretation of Zahavi — its advantages in comparison with the “third-person” perspective. The author questions about grounds of formation of self-consciousness, taking into account the experience of philosophy and other human sciences. The aim of this paper is to describe and clarify the whole system of differences and genetics of internal motivation in the form in which subjectivity is a dynamic (temporal) model of consciousness.