The Future of Post-Human Personality: A Preface to a New Theory of Normality and Abnormality

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by  Peter Baofu

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The Future of
Post-Human Personality
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The Future of
Post-Human Personality
A Preface to a New Theory
of Normality and Abnormality

Peter Baofu

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The Future of Post-Human Personality: A Preface to a New Theory of
Normality and Abnormality, by Peter Baofu
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To Those in the Future World beyond Normality and Abnormality
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CONTENTS

List of Tables ...................................................................................................... xi
Foreword......................................................................................................... xvii
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................. xix
List of Abbreviations ........................................................................................ xxi

Part One: Introduction

Chapter One. Introduction—The Perplexity of Personality ................................ 3
The Political Correctness of a Fascinating Idea .......................................... 3
Different Definitions of Normality and Abnormality .................................. 4
The Varieties of Normal and Abnormal Characters ..................................... 6
The Theoretical Debate ................................................................................ 9
The Contrarian Theory of Personality........................................................ 14
Theory and Meta-Theory ........................................................................... 16
The Logic of Existential Dialectics ............................................................ 17
Sophisticated Methodological Holism ....................................................... 46
Chapter Outline .......................................................................................... 54
Some Clarifications .................................................................................... 55

Part Two: ormality

Chapter Two. Normality and Its Double Sides .............................................. 115
The Convenience of Normality ............................................................... 115
Normality and the Mind ........................................................................... 115
Normality and Nature .............................................................................. 128
Normality and Society ............................................................................. 140
Normality and Culture ............................................................................. 154
The Mediocrity of Normality .................................................................. 168