Jennifer Rosner

Messy Self (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Messy Self challenges the idea -- and the ideal -- of a coherent, harmonious self. Taken together, the essays illustrate how a flourishing self is inevitably divided, ambivalent, fractured, messy -- and how the self triumphs through disorder. Written in accessible language by award-winning writers and scholars, the book offers a diversity of perspectives on the complexities of the self. With chapters on creativity, love, self-understanding, self-deception, identity, responsibility, and well-being, The Messy Self gives a range of voices to the ordinary and extraordinary divisions, fragmentations, and uncertainties that mark our everyday experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317256106
• Artikelnr.: 44366449

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Rosner

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Love and the Messy Self
Chapter 1 A Strange Disorder, Diane Ackerman
Chapter 2 My Tourette's, Gayle Pemberton
Chapter 3 Conservation, Debra Spark
Chapter 4 The Mommy at the Zoo, Beth Ann Fennelly
Chapter 5 Prologue to Psyche, Jane F. Qrosthwaite
Chapter 6 Psyche in Love, Wendy Wasserstein
Chapter 7 Since You Came, John O'Donohue
Part II Self-Understanding and the Messy Self
Chapter 8 The Clause, C. K. Williams
Chapter 9 The Last Place on Earth, Patricia Foster
Chapter 10 Facing North, Mary Kinzie
Chapter 11 The Fiction of the Self and the Self of Fiction, Rebecca Goldstein
Chapter 12 The Real Story, Liv Pertzoff
Chapter 13 The Envoy, Jane Hirshfield
Part III Self-Deception and the Messy Self
Chapter 14 The Superficial Unity of the Mind, Sarah Buss
Chapter 15 Kidding Ourselves*, Steven Pinker
Chapter 16 Man Alone, Louise Bogan
Part IV Identification and the Messy Self
Chapter 17 The Disappearance, Ilan Stavans
Chapter 18 With Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Richard Chess
Chapter 19 Gifts, Faith Adiele
Chapter 20 Song of the Red Earth, Meena Alexander
Chapter 21 We're All Colored, Huston Diehl
Part V Well-Being and the Messy Self
Chapter 22 Winnicott on the Surprises of the Self, Martha C. Nussbaum
Chapter 23 Buried, Carol Edelstein
Chapter 24 Legal Selves, Robin West
Part VI Creativity and the Messy Self
Chapter 25 Unimaginative, Corwin Ericson
Chapter 26 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
Chapter 27 You ..., there ..., listening ..., Donald Morrill