Narrative and Self-Understanding
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 storyte...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Literary Experience and Self-Reflection, Garry L. Hagberg
- Part I: Self, Self-Description, Story
- 2.The (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. .
