UID:
almahu_9949361594702882
Format:
1 online resource (VII, 277 p.)
ISBN:
3-11-069851-X
Content:
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 reflexive means that it is made up of non-subjective (or supra-subjective) communication. The volume's contributors analyze this double reflexivity, of the self and society, from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing both on individual and social narratives. This broad, interdisciplinary approach is a distinctive mark of the entire project. The volume will be structured around the following axes: Self-making and reflexivity – theoretical topics; Social self and the modern world; Literature – self and narrativity; Creative Self – text and fine art. Among the contributors are some of the most renowned specialists in their respective fields, including J. F. Kervégan, B. Zabel, P. Stekeler-Weithofer, I. James, L. Kvasz, H. Ikäheimo and others.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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List of Abbreviations --
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Introduction --
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I Self-Making and Reflexivity – Theoretical Topics --
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Being in the World as Self-Making: On the Logical Concept of a Personal Life --
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“Spirit” – or the Self-Creating Life-Form of Persons and Its Constitutive Limits --
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The System Must Construct Itself – Narrativity and Autopoiesis in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre --
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Autobiography and the Construction of Human Nature: Rousseau on the Relation between Self-Love and Pity --
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II Social Self and the Modern World --
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Is the Grand Narrative of Rights at Its End? --
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Post-Metaphysical Right? Modernity – Between Self-Reflection and Crisis --
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Autopoiesis and (Prosaic) Heroism: Of Gods and Overmen (and Giant Insects) --
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III Literature – Self and Narrativity --
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Narrative Voice, Heteropoiesis, and the Outside --
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Paradoxes of Self-Creation and Narrativity in the Symbolist Novel --
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On Recognition, Duplication, and Self-Creativity in Colonial Contexts: Hegel, Fanon, Tournier --
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“Sketch for a Self-Analysis”: Self-Reflexivity in Bourdieu’s Approach to Literature --
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IV Creative Self – Text and Fine Art --
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Changes of the Pictorial Form and the Development of the Self --
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Why Doesn’t Laocoön Scream? Autopoiesis in Art --
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Index of Names --
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Index of Subjects
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-069845-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110698510
