Narrative and Self-Understanding | Buch

Cover: 9783030282882 | Narrative and Self-Understanding | Garry L. Hagberg | Buch | xiii

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Beschreibung

This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition for millennia. Likewise the nature of storytelling, the assembly of individual parts of a potential story into a coherent narrative structure, has been central to the study of literature. But how do we gain knowledge from an artform that is by definition fictional, by definition not a matter of ascertained fact, as this applies to the understanding of our lives?

When we see ourselves in the mimetic mirror of literature, what we see may not just be a matter of identifying with a single protagonist, but also a matter of recognizing long-form structures, long-arc narrative shapes that give a place to ¿ and thus make sense of ¿ the individual bits of experience that we place into those [...] of course at precisely this juncture a question arises: do we make that sense, or do we discover it? The twelve chapters brought together here lucidly and steadily reveal how the matters at hand are far more intricate and interesting than any such dichotomy could accommodate. This is a book that investigates the ways in which life and literature speak to each other.

Über den Autor

Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA, and has also held a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. Author of numerous books and articles at the intersection of the philosophy of the arts and the philosophy of language and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, his most recent book is Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood.

Zusammenfassung

Explores the missing link between the study of narrative and philosophical questions about the self

Investigates the ways in which life and literature speak to each other

Offers a nuanced and cross-disciplinary approach that will appeal to both narrative theorists and metaphysicians

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Literary Experience and Self-Reflection, Garry L. Hagberg.- Part I: Self, Self-Description, Story.- [...] (Literary) Stories of Our Lives, Jukka Mikkonen.- 3. Literature and Moral Change- Rupture, Universality and Self-Understanding, Nora Hamalainen.- 4. Rationalism about Autobiography, Samuel Clark.- Part II: The Examined Mind.- 5. Exploring Self and Emotion: Unamuno's Narrative Fiction as Thought Experiment, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran.- 6. Emerson's Dialectic of Self-Knowledge, Jeff Wieand.- 7. Self-Knowledge in Nitezsche and in Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, Antonio Cardioelle & Paolo Stellino.- Part III: Negotiations of Selfhood.- 8. A Professional Conscience: On an Episode of Self-Accusation in Raymon Queneau's The Last Days, Sam McAuliffe.- 9. Self-Deception as a Philosophical Problem, Zeyneo Talay Turner.- 10. Self-Forgiveness and the Moral Perspective of Humanity: Ian McEwan's Atonement, John Lippitt.- Part IV: Character, Transformative Reading, and Self-Reflective Consciousness.- 11. Fragility of Character in Primo Levi's Story of a Coin, Catherine Mooney.- 12. Transformative Fictions: Literature as Care of the Self, Daniel Just.- 13. Wittgenstein, Consciousness and The Golden Bowl: James's Maggie Verver and the Linguistic Mind, Garry L. Hagberg.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik , Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xiii 274 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030282882
ISBN-10:	3030282880
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Redaktion:	Hagberg, Garry L.
Herausgeber:	Garry L Hagberg
Auflage:	1st edition 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Garry L. Hagberg
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.11.2019
Gewicht:	0,488 kg

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