Self-Knowledge and the SelfIn this clear and reasoned discussion of self- knowledge and the self, the author asks whether it is really possible to know ourselves as we really are. He illuminates issues about the nature of self-identity which are of fundamental importance in moral psychology, epistemology and literary criticism. Jopling focuses on the accounts of Stuart Hampshire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Rorty, and dialogical philosophical psychology and illustrates his argument with examples from literature, drama and psychology. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
APPROACHES TO THE SELF | 31 |
SELFDETACHMENT AND SELFKNOWLEDGE | 59 |
A MYSTERY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT | 81 |
THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES IRONY CONTINGENCY AND THE LIGHTNESS OF BEING | 109 |
DIALOGIC SELFKNOWING | 135 |
NOTES | 167 |
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acquisition action actual full identity artifacts awareness behavior beliefs causal mechanisms character traits characterizes claims cognitive coherent complex concept consensus constituted contingent degree desires detachment determinate dialogue distinction emotions epistemic evaluation example existence existential experimentation explain external fact false feelings first-person freedom Freud fundamental project goal Hagar Hampshire Hampshire’s hermeneutic human Ibid ideal Ilyich independent inquiry insight interlocutor interpersonal interpretation Judgment Day kind kinesthesis knowledge means mind moral narrative narrativist nature nominalist object one’s ontological personality psychology perspective phenomenological philosophical psychology plausible point of view possible prereflective experience presupposed proprioception psychoanalysis psychological psychotherapy question rational reflective self-evaluation reflective self-inquiry reflexive relation relevant responsibility Rorty Rorty’s Sartre Sartre’s self-concepts self-deception self-descriptions self-inquiry and reflective self-knowledge self-narrative self-ownership self-understanding self’s sense social somatic sense Spinoza stance Stone Angel target therapeutic thought trans truth Tugendhat’s Ulrich ultimately unconscious understanding University Press veridical vocabularies Zasetsky