Self, Value, and Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self, Value, and Narrative write by Anthony Rudd. This book was released on 2012-10-25. Self, Value, and Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthony Rudd presents a striking new account of the self as an ethical, evaluative being. He draws on Kierkegaard's thought to present a case for an ancient and currently neglected view: that the tensions which are constitutive of selfhood can only be reconciled through the understanding of the self as guided by an objective Good.
Self, Value, and Narrative
Self, Value, and Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self, Value, and Narrative write by Anthony Rudd. This book was released on 2012-10-25. Self, Value, and Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Self, Value, and Narrative, Anthony Rudd defends a series of interrelated claims about the nature of the self. He argues that the self is not simply a given entity, but a being that constitutes or shapes itself. But it can only do this non-arbitrarily if it has a sense of the good by which it can be guided as it chooses to endorse some of its desires or dispositions and repudiate others. This means that there is an essentially ethical or evaluative dimension to selfhood, and one which has an essentially teleological character. Such self-constitution takes place in narrative terms, through one's telling—and, more importantly, living—one's own story. Versions of some or all of these ideas have been developed by various influential writers (including Frankfurt, Korsgaard, MacIntyre, Ricoeur, and Taylor) but Rudd develops these ideas in a way that is importantly different from others familiar in the literature. He takes his main inspiration from Kierkegaard's account of the self, and argues (controversially) that this account belongs in the Platonic rather than the Aristotelian tradition of teleological thinking. Through close engagement with much contemporary philosophical work, Rudd presents a convincing case for an ancient and currently unfashionable view: that the polarities and tensions that are constitutive of selfhood can only be reconciled through an orientation of the self as a whole to an objective Good.
Narrative, Emotion, and Insight
Narrative, Emotion, and Insight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative, Emotion, and Insight write by Noël Carroll. This book was released on 2011. Narrative, Emotion, and Insight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A collection of essays, written for this volume by leaders in the field, that study the emotional and cognitive significance of narrative and its implications for aesthetics and the philosophy of art"--Provided by publisher.
The Situation and the Story
The Situation and the Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Situation and the Story write by Vivian Gornick. This book was released on 2002-10-11. The Situation and the Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
The Transformative Self
The Transformative Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformative Self write by Jack J. Bauer. This book was released on 2021. The Transformative Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This chapter introduces the main features of the transformative self-what it is and is not. For instance, the transformative self is not a person but rather a self-identity that a person uses to facilitate personal growth. The person creates a transformative self primarily in their evolving life story. This growth-oriented narrative identity helps the person to cultivate growth toward a good life for the self and others. The chapter provides an overview of the book's theoretical approach and topics. The book's first section examines the components of personal growth, narrative identity, and a good life that culturally characterize the transformative self. The second section explores he personality and social ecology of the person who has a transformative self. The third section shows how the transformative self itself develops over time. The final section explores the hazards and heights of having a transformative self"--
