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Narrative and Self-Understanding

by Garry L. Hagberg

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 structures. But 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. 

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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 structures. But 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Literary Experience and Self-Reflection, Garry L. HagbergPart I: Self, Self-Description, Story2.The (Literary) Stories of Our Lives, Jukka Mikkonen3. Literature and Moral Change- Rupture, Universality and Self-Understanding, Nora Hamalainen4. Rationalism about Autobiography, Samuel ClarkPart II: The Examined Mind5. Exploring Self and Emotion: Unamuno's Narrative Fiction as Thought Experiment, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran6. Emerson's Dialectic of Self-Knowledge, Jeff Wieand7. Self-Knowledge in Nitezsche and in Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, Antonio Cardioelle & Paolo StellinoPart III: Negotiations of Selfhood8. A Professional Conscience: On an Episode of Self-Accusation in Raymon Queneau's The Last Days, Sam McAuliffe9. Self-Deception as a Philosophical Problem, Zeyneo Talay Turner10. Self-Forgiveness and the Moral Perspective of Humanity: Ian McEwan's Atonement, John Lippitt.- Part IV: Character, Transformative Reading, and Self-Reflective Consciousness11. Fragility of Character in Primo Levi's Story of a Coin, Catherine Mooney12. Transformative Fictions: Literature as Care of the Self, Daniel Just13. Wittgenstein, Consciousness and The Golden Bowl: James's Maggie Verver and the Linguistic Mind, Garry L. Hagberg. 

Feature

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

Details ISBN3030282880 ISBN-10 3030282880 ISBN-13 9783030282882 Format Hardcover Pages 274 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-11-26 Language English DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-28289-9 DEWEY 126 Edition 1st Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland UK Release Date 2019-11-26 Illustrations XIII, 274 p. Author Garry L. Hagberg Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2019 Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Alternative 9783030282912 Edited by Garry L. Hagberg Audience Professional & Vocational

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  • Condition: Brand new
  • ISBN-13: 9783030282882
  • Publication Year: 2019
  • Type: Textbook
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Narrative and Self-Understanding
  • Item Height: 210mm
  • Author: Garry L. Hagberg
  • Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland Ag
  • Topic: Literature, Popular Philosophy
  • Item Width: 148mm
  • Item Weight: 503g
  • Number of Pages: 274 Pages

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