Perspectives on the Self : : Reflexivity in the Humanities /

Perspectives on the Self : : Reflexivity in the Humanities / / ed. by Tereza Matějčková, Vojtěch Kolman.

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The volume develops the concepts of the self and its reflexive nature as they are linked to modern thought from Hegel to Luhmann. The moderns are reflexive in a double sense: they create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world – society – in their own image. That the social world is refl...

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MitwirkendeR:
Ikäheimo, Heikki,
James, David,
James, Ian,
Kervégan, Jean-François,
Kolman, Vojtěch,
Kvasz, Ladislav,
Matějčková, Tereza,
Mengozzi, Chiara,
Nini, Matthew,
Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin,
Voldřichová Beránková, Eva,
Zabel, Benno,
Šebek, Josef,
HerausgeberIn:
Kolman, Vojtěch,
Matějčková, Tereza,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 277 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I Self-Making and Reflexivity – Theoretical Topics
  • Being in the World as Self-Making: On the Logical Concept of a Personal Life
  • “Spirit” – or the Self-Creating Life-Form of Persons and Its Constitutive Limits
  • The System Must Construct Itself – Narrativity and Autopoiesis in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre
  • Autobiography and the Construction of Human Nature: Rousseau on the Relation between Self-Love and Pity
  • II Social Self and the Modern World
  • Is the Grand Narrative of Rights at Its End?
  • Post-Metaphysical Right? Modernity – Between Self-Reflection and Crisis
  • Autopoiesis and (Prosaic) Heroism: Of Gods and Overmen (and Giant Insects)
  • III Literature – Self and Narrativity
  • Narrative Voice, Heteropoiesis, and the Outside
  • Paradoxes of Self-Creation and Narrativity in the Symbolist Novel
  • On Recognition, Duplication, and Self-Creativity in Colonial Contexts: Hegel, Fanon, Tournier
  • “Sketch for a Self-Analysis”: Self-Reflexivity in Bourdieu’s Approach to Literature
  • IV Creative Self – Text and Fine Art
  • Changes of the Pictorial Form and the Development of the Self
  • Why Doesn’t Laocoön Scream? Autopoiesis in Art
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

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