Good lives : autobiography, self-knowledge, narrative, and self-realization / Samuel Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Samuel, 1974- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Philosophy.

Autobiography.

Autobiography--Authorship--Psychological aspects.

Self-realization.

Storytelling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 251 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Autobiography, self-knowledge, narrative, and self-realization

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Samuel Clark explores how we can learn about ourselves by reading, thinking through, and arguing about autobiography. He defends a self-realization account of the self and the good life, and argues that self-narration plays less role in our lives than some thinkers have supposed, and the development and expression of potential much more.

Contents:

Routemap 1: Autobiography

Autobiography is recollection

Autobiography is reflection on experience

Autobiography is artefactual

Autobiography is a genre

Autobiography is Narrative

Paradigm Autobiography form

Autobiography is a local tradition

Rationalism about Autobiography

Autobiography as clue and as container

Autobiography as historical data

Autobiography as thought experiment

Form enables reasoning

Particular reasoning

Diachronic reasoning

Compositional reasoning

Objection: Autobiographies are enovels

Self-reflective reasoning

Horizontal connection not vertical generalization

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-263472-0

0-19-189774-4

0-19-263471-2