Perspectives on the Self : Reflexivity in the Humanities

Perspectives on the Self Reflexivity in the Humanities

The volume develops the concepts of the self and its reflexive nature as they are linked to modern thought from Hegel to Luhmann. The moderns are reflexive in a double sense: they create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world – society – in their own image. That the social world is refl...

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Otros Autores: Matějčková, Tereza (Editor), Ikäheimo, Heikki, contributor (contributor), James, David, contributor (editor), James, Ian, contributor, Kervégan, Jean-François, contributor, Kolman, Vojtěch, contributor, Kolman, Vojtěch, editor, Kvasz, Ladislav, contributor, Matějčková, Tereza, contributor, Matějčková, Tereza, editor, Mengozzi, Chiara, contributor, Nini, Matthew, contributor, Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin, contributor, Voldřichová Beránková, Eva, contributor, Zabel, Benno, contributor, Šebek, Josef, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Berlin ; Boston : [2022]
Materias:
Humanities > Philosophy.
Self-consciousness (Awareness).
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
Autopoiesis.
Narrativity.
Reflexivity.
Self.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I Self-Making and Reflexivity – Theoretical Topics
  • Being in the World as Self-Making: On the Logical Concept of a Personal Life
  • “Spirit” – or the Self-Creating Life-Form of Persons and Its Constitutive Limits
  • The System Must Construct Itself – Narrativity and Autopoiesis in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre
  • Autobiography and the Construction of Human Nature: Rousseau on the Relation between Self-Love and Pity
  • II Social Self and the Modern World
  • Is the Grand Narrative of Rights at Its End?
  • Post-Metaphysical Right? Modernity – Between Self-Reflection and Crisis
  • Autopoiesis and (Prosaic) Heroism: Of Gods and Overmen (and Giant Insects)
  • III Literature – Self and Narrativity
  • Narrative Voice, Heteropoiesis, and the Outside
  • Paradoxes of Self-Creation and Narrativity in the Symbolist Novel
  • On Recognition, Duplication, and Self-Creativity in Colonial Contexts: Hegel, Fanon, Tournier
  • “Sketch for a Self-Analysis”: Self-Reflexivity in Bourdieu’s Approach to Literature
  • IV Creative Self – Text and Fine Art
  • Changes of the Pictorial Form and the Development of the Self
  • Why Doesn’t Laocoön Scream? Autopoiesis in Art
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

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