Narrative and Self-Understanding
This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition
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Narrative and Self-Understanding
Garry L. Hagberg Editor
Narrative and Self-Understanding
Editor Garry L. Hagberg Department of Philosophy Bard College Annandale On Hudson, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-28288-2 ISBN 978-3-030-28289-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28289-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction: Literary Experience and Self-Reflection 1 Garry L. Hagberg
Part I Self, Self-description, Story 9 2 The (Literary) Stories of Our Lives 11 Jukka Mikkonen 3 Literature and Moral Change: Rupture, Universality and Self-Understanding 29 Nora Hämäläinen 4 Rationalism About Autobiography 53 Samuel Clark
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Part II The Examined Mind 75 5 Exploring Self and Emotion: Unamuno’s Narrative Fiction as Thought Experiment 77 Íngrid Vendrell Ferran 6 Emerson’s Dialectic of Self-Knowledge 97 Jeff Wieand 7 Self-Knowledge in Nietzsche and in Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet117 Antonio Cardiello and Paolo Stellino
Part III Negotiations of Selfhood 139 8 A Professional Conscience: On an Episode of SelfAccusation in Raymond Queneau’s The Last Days141 Sam McAuliffe 9 Self-deception as a Philosophical Problem159 Zeynep Talay Turner 10 Self-forgiveness and the Moral Perspective of Humility: Ian McEwan’s Atonement173 John Lippitt
Part IV Character, Transformative Reading, and Selfreflective Consciousness 193
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11 Fragility of Character in Primo Levi’s “Story of a Coin”195 Catherine Mooney 12 Transformative Fictions: Literature as Care of the Self205
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