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Self-knowledge and the self / David A. Jopling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jopling, David A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self.
- Self-perception.
- Self-knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 193 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this discussion of self-knowledge and the self, the author asks whether it is really possible to know ourselves as we really are. He illuminates issues such as moral psychology, epistemology and literary criticism.
- In this clear and reasoned discussion of self- knowledge and the self, the author asks whether it is really possible to know ourselves as we really are. He illuminates issues about the nature of self-identity which are of fundamental importance in moral psychology, epistemology and literary criticism. Jopling focuses on the accounts of Stuart Hampshire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Rorty, and dialogical philosophical psychology and illustrates his argument with examples from literature, drama and psychology. In this clear and reasoned discussion of self- knowledge and the self, the author asks whether it is really possible to know ourselves as we really are. He illuminates issues about the nature of self-identity which are of fundamental importance in moral psychology, epistemology and literary criticism. Jopling focuses on the accounts of Stuart Hampshire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Rorty, and dialogical philosophical psychology and illustrates his argument with examples from literature, drama and psychology.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Introduction
- ch. 2. Approaches to the self
- ch. 3. Self-detachment and self-knowledge
- ch. 4. A mystery in broad daylight
- ch. 5. "The man without qualities" : irony, contingency, and the lightness of being
- ch. 6. Dialogic self-knowing.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-95838-6
- 1-135-95839-4
- 1-280-31701-9
- 0-203-90668-3
- 9780203906682
- OCLC:
- 475877897
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