Narrative and Self-Understanding

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  • Narrative and Self-Understanding Book Detail

  • Author : Garry L. Hagberg
  • Release Date : 2019-11-15
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 277
  • ISBN 13 : 3030282899
  • File Size : 72,72 MB
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Narrative and Self-Understanding by Garry L. Hagberg PDF Summary

Book Description: This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition for millennia. Likewise the nature of storytelling, the assembly of individual parts of a potential story into a coherent narrative structure, has been central to the study of literature. But how do we gain knowledge from an artform that is by definition fictional, by definition not a matter of ascertained fact, as this applies to the understanding of our lives? When we see ourselves in the mimetic mirror of literature, what we see may not just be a matter of identifying with a single protagonist, but also a matter of recognizing long-form structures, long-arc narrative shapes that give a place to – and thus make sense of – the individual bits of experience that we place into those structures. But of course at precisely this juncture a question arises: do we make that sense, or do we discover it? The twelve chapters brought together here lucidly and steadily reveal how the matters at hand are far more intricate and interesting than any such dichotomy could accommodate. This is a book that investigates the ways in which life and literature speak to each other.

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