Enigmas of Identity /

Enigmas of Identity / / Peter Brooks.

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"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Brooks, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 1 color illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • To Begin
  • 1. Marks of Identity
  • 2. Egotisms
  • 3. The "Outcast of the Universe"?
  • 4. Discovering the Self in Self-Pleasuring
  • 5. "Inevitable Discovery": Searches, Narrative, Identity
  • 6. The Derealization of Self
  • 7. The Madness of Art
  • Epilogue. The Identity Paradigm
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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