Problems of the social self / David Bakhurst and Christine Sypnowich -- Meaning and self in cultural perspective / Jerome Bruner -- Wittgenstein and social being / David Bakhurst -- What a Vygotskian perspective can contribute to contemporary philosophy of language / Ellen Watson -- The Soviet self : a personal reminiscence / Felix Mikhailov -- Death in Utopia : Marxism and the mortal self / Christine Sypnowich -- The social self in political theory : the communitarian critique of the liberal subject / Stephen Mulhall and Adam Swift -- The gendered self / Diana Coole -- Becoming women/women becoming : film and the social construction of gender / Helene Keyssar -- Why multiple personality tells us something about the self/mind/person/subject/soul/consciousness / Ian Hacking.