The Self in Moral Space : : Life Narrative and the Good / / David Parker.
All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor, among others, David Parker examines a range of classic and contemporary autobiogr...
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Parker, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Self in Moral Space : Life Narrative and the Good / David Parker. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2007 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Life Narrative and the Good -- Chapter One. Life Narrative and Languages of the Good -- Chapter Two. The Full Range of Goods, Judeo-Christian and Romantic -- Chapter Three. The Full Range of Goods, Universal and Particular -- Chapter Four. The Good Life: Ethical and Aesthetic Value -- Conclusion. Articulating the Good -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor, among others, David Parker examines a range of classic and contemporary autobiographies—including those of St. Augustine, William Wordsworth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Gosse, Roland Barthes, Seamus Heaney, and J. M. Coetzee—to reveal a whole domain of life narrative that has been previously ignored, one that enables a new approach to the question of what constitutes a "good" life narrative. Moving from an ethics toward an aesthetics of life writing, Parker follows Wittgenstein's view that ethics and aesthetics are one.The Self in Moral Space is distinctive in that its key ethical question is not What is it right for the life writer to do? but the broader question What is it good to be? This question opens up an important debate with the dominant postmodern paradigms that prevail in life writing studies today. In Parker's estimation, such paradigms are incapable of explaining why life writing matters in the contemporary context. Life narrative, he argues, faces readers with the perennial ethical question How should a human being live? We need a new reconstructive paradigm, as offered by this book, in order to gain a fuller understanding of life narrative and its humanistic potential. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Autobiography Moral and ethical aspects. Identity (Psychology) Moral and ethical aspects. Literary Studies. Philosophy. Religious Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801445613 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732287 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501732287 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501732287/original |
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