Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which explore the idea of selfhood as a matter of non-self-identity: for example, as becoming or self-overcoming, or as being doubled or divided. He draws on Nietzsche, Sartre, and Wittgenstein, but also on works of opera, cinema, and fiction.
Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which explore the idea of selfhood as a matter of non-self-identity: for example, as becoming or self-overcoming, or as being doubled or divided. He draws on Nietzsche, Sartre, and Wittgenstein, but also on works of opera, cinema, and fiction.
Stephen Mulhall is a Professor of Philosophy, and a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Oxford. He was previously a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex.
Inhaltsangabe
* Contents * Introduction * Dramatis Personae * Exemplars of Identity: The Bearing of Proper Names in the Philosophical Investigations * Smoking in Wartime: Sartrean Scenes I * Orchestral Metaphysics: The Birth of Tragedy Between Drama, Opera and Philosophy * The Metaphysics of (Secret) Agency Or: Three Ways of Not Being James Bond * The Gamblers of Roulettenburg: Sartrean Scenes II * The Melodramatic Reality of Film and Literature Or: Elizabeth Costello's Cinematic Sisters * Fetters, Shadows and Circles: Freedom and Form in Human, All Too Human * The Trials of Desire: Sartrean Scenes III * Countering the Ballad of Co-Dependency: The Realistic Spirit of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button * The Promising Animal: The Art of Reading On the Genealogy of Morality as Testimony * The Decipherment of Signs: Sartrean Scenes IV * Quartet: Wallace's Wittgenstein, Moran's Amis * Bibliography * Filmography
* Contents * Introduction * Dramatis Personae * Exemplars of Identity: The Bearing of Proper Names in the Philosophical Investigations * Smoking in Wartime: Sartrean Scenes I * Orchestral Metaphysics: The Birth of Tragedy Between Drama, Opera and Philosophy * The Metaphysics of (Secret) Agency Or: Three Ways of Not Being James Bond * The Gamblers of Roulettenburg: Sartrean Scenes II * The Melodramatic Reality of Film and Literature Or: Elizabeth Costello's Cinematic Sisters * Fetters, Shadows and Circles: Freedom and Form in Human, All Too Human * The Trials of Desire: Sartrean Scenes III * Countering the Ballad of Co-Dependency: The Realistic Spirit of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button * The Promising Animal: The Art of Reading On the Genealogy of Morality as Testimony * The Decipherment of Signs: Sartrean Scenes IV * Quartet: Wallace's Wittgenstein, Moran's Amis * Bibliography * Filmography
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