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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811967703321

Autore

Jopling David A

Titolo

Self-knowledge and the self / / David A. Jopling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-135-95838-6

1-135-95839-4

1-280-31701-9

0-203-90668-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

ix, 193 p

Disciplina

155.2

Soggetti

Self

Self-perception

Self-knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Approaches to the self -- ch. 3. Self-detachment and self-knowledge -- ch. 4. A mystery in broad daylight -- ch. 5. "The man without qualities" : irony, contingency, and the lightness of being -- ch. 6. Dialogic self-knowing.

Sommario/riassunto

In this 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 such as moral psychology, epistemology and literary criticism.