OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS THE SELF AND ITS SHADOWS A BOOK OF ESSAYS ON INDIVIDUALITY AS NEGATION IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS 2013 RETAIL

TITLE: THE SELF AND ITS SHADOWS: A BOOK OF ESSAYS ON
INDIVIDUALITY AS NEGATION IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS
PUBLISHER: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PR LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/RDeneP RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2014.06.25
ISBN: 9780199661787 STORE DATE: 2013
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AUTHOR: STEPHEN MULHALL

BOOK

Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays
which together make up an original study of selfhood
(subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of
articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of
the idea that selfhood is best conceived as a matter of
non-self-identity--for example, as becoming or self-overcoming
or as being what one is not and not being what one is, or as
being doubled or divided. Philosophically, a sustained reading of
the work of Nietzsche and Sartre is central to this project
although Wittgenstein is also fundamental to its concerns;
Mulhall therefore draws extensively on texts usually associated
with 'Continental' philosophical traditions, primarily in order
to test the feasibility of a non-elitist form of moral
perfectionism. Within the arts, several essays examine various
films whose themes intersect with those of the philosophers under
study (including Hollywood melodramas, recent spy movies such as
the Bourne trilogy and the latest incarnation of James Bond, and
David Fincher's 'Benjamin Button'); Wagner's Ring cycle is a
recurrent concern; and the novels of Kingsley Amis, J. M. Coetzee
and David Foster Wallace are also prominent