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
APPROACHES TO THE SELF | |
SELFDETACHMENT AND selfknowledge | |
A MYSTERY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT | |
THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES IRONY CONTINGENCY AND | |
DIALOGIC SELFKNOWING | |
NOTES | |
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acquisition of self–knowledge action actual full identity artifacts awareness behavior beliefs character traits characterizes claims cognitive coherent concept constituted contingent desires detachment determinate dialogue emotions epistemic example existence existential experimentation explain external fact false feelings first–person Flanagan form of self–understanding freedom Freud fundamental project goal Hagar Hampshire Hampshire’s Heidegger hermeneutic human Ibid ideal independent inquiry insight interlocutor interpersonal interpretation Judgment Day kind kinesthesis knowledge means mind moral narrative narrativist nature Nietzsche 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–analysis self–concepts self–deception self–descriptions self–determination self–ignorance self–inquiry and reflective self–knowing self–narrative 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