The Stain of Errors on the Self Carl Olson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Carl, author.

Series:

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025

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Value Inquiry Book Series 396

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Self.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston Brill 2024

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of the self, this study focuses on a gap left by previous philosophers. This shortcoming is related to the nature of the self to commit errors that become part of the identity of the self. These

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Part 1 Past Approaches to the Problem of the Self

Chapter 1 Introduction

1 Problematic Nature of Comparative Philosophy

2 Indian Philosophy on the Nature of Error

3 The Role of Error in Life

4 Selected Western Thinkers and Error

5 Error and Narrative

6 Existence of the Self

7 Preview of Future Chapters

Chapter 2 Narrative Theorists

1 Ricoeur and Narrative Self

2 Taylor and Narrative Self

3 Dennett and the Narrative Self

4 Anti-narrative Position of Strawson

5 Strawson's Concept of the Self

6 Critical Critique of Thinkers

7 Concluding Comments

Chapter 3 Postmodernism, Non-self, and Other

1 Levinas and the Face of the Other

2 Derrida and Deconstruction of the Self

3 Deleuze and the Changing Self

4 French Feminist Critique of the Self: Kristeva and Irigaray

5 Non-self and Buddhism

6 Critical Critique of Postmodernists

7 Concluding Remarks

Part 2 A Reconsideration of the Problem of the Self

Chapter 4 Journey, Place, Play, Escape, and Identity

1 Space and Place

2 Eastern Counterpoints to Tuan's Notion of Place

3 Remarks about the Nature of Play

4 Escapism and Play

5 The Hindu Theistic Mode of Escape

6 The Daoist Mode of Adjusting

7 Human Identity

8 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 5 The Self and the Nightmare of History

1 DeLillo and Historical Time

2 Mitchell and Time

3 Self, History, and Violence

4 Reactions to the Terror of History

5 The Absurdity of It All

6 Self and Time in the Comparative Mode

7 Time, Error, and the Postmodern Perspective

8 Concluding Comments

Chapter 6 Self, Other, Body and God

1 The Other

2 The Self and Embodiment

3 Flesh and Sexuality

4 The Existence of the Wholly Other

5 God, Nature, and Ecology

6 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 7 Oops!

1 Discovering Selfhood

2 Identity Lost

3 Identity Found

4 Impersonal Identity

5 False Identity

6 Death and the Narrative Conclusion

7 Stained Memory

8 The Stain of Error

9 Identity of the Self

10 The Stain of Oops

11 Paradoxical Aspects of the Self

12 Play and Work

13 Concluding Remarks

Index

Back Cover

Preface

Part 1

Past Approaches to the Problem of the Self

1 Introduction

1Problematic Nature of Comparative Philosophy

2Indian Philosophy on the Nature of Error

3The Role of Error in Life

4Selected Wes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN:

9004701559

9789004701557

OCLC:

1463294474

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004701557 DOI

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