The Wild Region in Life-History / László Tengelyi ; translated from the German by Geza Kállay with the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tengelyi, László.

Contributor:

Project Muse, Content Provider.

Kállay, Géza.

Series:

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy

Standardized Title:

Zwitterbegriff Lebensgeschichte. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Self (Philosophy).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvi, 222 p. )

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A tour de force by one of Hungary's most interesting contemporary philosophers The Wild Region in Life-History outlines a phenomenological approach to some of the main topics of theoretical philosophy, such as meaning, sense, temporality, unity of life, narrative history, self-identity, and intersubjectivity, as well as an ethics of alterity. In his investigations, László Tengelyi's point of departure is a critical examination of what is commonly referred to as "the narrative view of the self, " which tends to equate life-history and personal identity. Challenging this view as too one-dimensional and reflective, Tengelyi reveals a hidden area of sense-formation in life-history--an area in which force and meaning do not merely blend but in many ways undermine each other. It is this hidden area that The Wild Region in Life-History describes.

Contents:

Prelude : self-identity and life-history

1. Experiential sense in life-history

2. The temporality of experience in life-history

3. Self-identity and the experience of alterity

4. Elements for an ethic of alterity.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780810121928

0810121921

OCLC:

609959721