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Living in Words

Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood

By: Hagberg

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Living in Words

Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood

By: Hagberg

Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature play in the constitution of a human being? What is the connection between the language we see at work in imaginative fiction and the language we develop to describe ourselves? And is something more powerful than just description at work -- that is, does self-descriptive or autobiographical language itself play an active role in shaping and solidifying our identities? This adventurous book suggests that interdisciplinary work interweaving philosophy and literature can answer these questions. Main sections investigate the relational model of the self derived from American pragmatism, the sense of rightness that can attach to descriptions of ourselves and our actions, the analogy between interpreting works of art and the interpretation of persons, the special power of literature as a self-compositional tool and the "architecture" of self-narratives and the corresponding growth of self-understanding, what we can learn from cautionary tales concerning the tragic lack of self-knowledge, the possibility of "rewriting" and "rereading" the self, and overall, the assembly of real-life structures of self-definition through our reflective engagement with literature. Throughout, the book develops a model of active, self-constitutive literary reading that provides language for, and sharpens, self-individuation and sensibility. Conjoining a relational conception of selfhood to a narrative conception of self-understanding, Living in Words makes a powerful claim that aesthetic experience and our engagement with the arts is a far more serious matter in human life and society than it in some quarters is taken to be.

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Describing Ourselves

Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness

By: Garry Hagberg,Chair in the School of Philosophy Garry L Hagberg

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Describing Ourselves

Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness

By: Garry Hagberg,Chair in the School of Philosophy Garry L Hagberg

Garry Hagberg presents an original philosophical investigation of self-description. He explores the profound implications that Wittgenstein's later work has for our understanding of the human condition, and offers philosophical interpretations of a fascinating range of autobiographical writings, by Goethe, Dostoevsky, Iris Murdoch, and others.

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Describing Ourselves

Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness

By: Garry Hagberg,Chair in the School of Philosophy Garry L Hagberg

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Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness

By: Garry Hagberg,Chair in the School of Philosophy Garry L Hagberg

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Living in Words

Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood

By: Hagberg

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Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood

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