The self and its shadows : a book of essays on individuality as negation in philosophy and the arts / Stephen Mulhall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulhall, Stephen, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 327 pages)

Other Title:

Self & its shadows

Book of essays on individuality as negation in philosophy and the arts

Individuality as negation in philosophy and the arts

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which explore the idea of selfhood as a matter of non-self-identity: for example, as becoming or self-overcoming or as being doubled or divided. He draws on Nietzsche, Sartre and Wittgenstein, but also on works of opera, cinema, and fiction.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Dramatis personae; Exemplars of identity: the bearing of proper names in the philosophical investigations; I: Text

Nothung and Siegfried; II: Translation

Excalibur and Arthur; III: Intertext

Moses and Freud; Smoking in wartime: Sartrean scenes I (Introduction); Orchestral metaphysics: the birth of tragedy between drama, opera, and philosophy; 1. The satyr's vision: tragic drama; 2. Interlude: the operatic transfiguration of voice, body, and words.

3. Theoretical man: Socrates as a mask of Apollo; The metaphysics of (secret) agency: or: three ways of not being James Bond; 1. Quiller; 2. Bourne; 3. Bond; The gamblers of Roulettenburg: Sartrean scenes II (part one, chapter one); The melodramatic reality of film and literature or: Elizabeth Costello's cinematic sisters; 1. Exposure to slaughter: Diamond, Coetzee, Hughes, Cavell; 2. Sisters beneath the skin: Costello as an unknown woman; 3. Conclusion: flesh and blood, mother and child.

Fetters, shadows, and circles: freedom and form in human, all too human; 1. Opinions, maxims, and the scientific spirit; 2. The law of identity and the truth of becoming; 3. Freedom of the will and freedom of spirit; 4. The wanderer and his shadow; 5. Foreshadowing: a philosophy of the morning; the trials of desire: Sartrean scenes III (part one, chapter one; part two, chapter one; part three, chapter one); Countering the ballad of co-dependency: the realistic spirit of David Fincher's The curious case of Benjamin Button.

1. Counter-Romantic realism: the clock and the ballad; 2. The (mis- )marriage of body and soul: Benjamin Button's condition

cinematic and literary; 3. The digital (mis- )marriage of actor and character: Benjamin Button and Brad Pitt; The promising animal: the art of reading on the genealogy of morality as testimony; 1. Getting underway; 2. The Kingfisher and the Fisher king; 3. Giving names and making words; 4. The eye of the cave and the ear of the city; 5. The promise of knowledge: giving, taking, and turning one's word.

The decipherment of signs: Sartrean scenes IV (existentialism as a humanism); 1. The father's anguish; 2. The son's abandonment; 3. The ghost's despair; Quartet: Wallace's Wittgenstein, Moran's Amis; 1. Gramma's disappearance; 2. The self-censurer; 2 (A). The tremendous Rakehell; 3. The death of the author; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 24, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-874822-1

1-299-45779-7

0-19-163793-9

OCLC:

922971687