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OverviewReasoning with autobiography is a way to self-knowledge. We can learn about ourselves, as human beings and as individuals, by reading, thinking through, and arguing about this distinctive kind of text. Reasoning with Edmund Gosse's Father and Son is a way of learning about the nature of the good life and the roles that pleasure and self-expression can play in it. Reasoning with Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs is a way of learning about transformative experience, self-alienation, and therefore the nature of the self. Good Lives: Autobiography, Self-Knowledge, Narrative, and Self-Realization develops this claim by answering a series of questions: What is an autobiography? How can we learn about ourselves from reading one? On what subjects does autobiography teach? What should we learn about them? In particular, given that autobiographies are narratives, should we learn something about the importance of narrative in human life? Could our storytelling about our own lives make sense of them as wholes, unify them over time, or make them good for us? Could storytelling make the self?Samuel Clark provides an authoritative critique of narrative and a defence of a self-realization account of the self and its good. He investigates the wide range of extant accounts of the self and of the good life, and defends pluralist realism about self-knowledge by reading and reasoning with autobiographies of self-discovery, martial life, and solitude. The volume concludes by showing that autobiography can be reasoning in pursuit of self-knowledge; each of us is an unchosen, initially opaque, seedlike self; our good is the development and expression of our latent capacities, which is our individual self-realization; and self-narration plays much less role in our lives than some thinkers have supposed, and the development and expression of potential much more. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel Clark (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion, Lancaster University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.462kg ISBN: 9780198865384ISBN 10: 0198865384 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 04 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I 2. Routemap 1: Autobiography 3. Autobiography is Recollection 4. Autobiography is Reflection on Experience 5. Autobiography is Artefactual 6. Autobiography is a Genre 7. Autobiography is Narrative 8. Paradigm Autobiographical Form 9. Autobiography is a Local Tradition 10. Rationalism about Autobiography 11. Autobiography as Clue and as Container 12. Autobiography as Historical Data 13. Autobiography as Thought Experiment 14. Form enables Reasoning 15. Particular Reasoning 16. Diachronic Reasoning 17. Compositional Reasoning 18. Objection: Autobiographies are Novels 19. Self-reflective reasoning 20. Horizontal Connection not Vertical Generalization 21. Routemap 2: Uses of Autobiography 22. Two Purposes of Autobiography 23. The Delphic Demand 24. Explanation 25. Justification and Self-enjoyment 26. Selfhood 27. Good life 28. Reductionism about Meaning 29. Accounts of the Self 30. Taxonomies of the Self 31. Tasks for an Account of the Self 32. Accounts of the Good Life 33. Taxonomies of the Good Life 34. Tasks for an Account of the Good Life 35. The Self and its Good 36. Self-realization 37. Ethical Objections to Self-realization 38. Metaphysics of the Realizable Self 39. An Epistemological Objection to Self-realization 40. Experiential Objections to Self-realization 41. Routemap 3: from Part I to Part II Part II 42. Narrativist Views 43. Routemap 4: The Dialectic between Narrative and Self-realization 44. Siegfried Sassoon s Memoirs 45. The Shape of a Life 46. Narrative Non-additivity 47. Non-narrative Explanations of Non-additivity 48. Neither Agents nor Temporal Sequences Explain Non-additivity 49. Telling does not Explain Non-additivity 50. Genre does not Explain Non-additivity 51. Self-realization Explains Non-additivity 52. Narrative Self-unification 53. Irony vs Rosati 54. Transformative Experience vs Schechtman 55. Against Narrative Self-unification 56. For Self-realization over a Life 57. Objection: The Self is a Self-interpretation 58. First Reply: Self vs Persona 59. Second Reply: Pluralist realism about Self-knowledge 60. Introspection is a Bad Method of Self-discovery 61. The Objective Stance is an Incomplete Method of Self-discovery 62. Pleasure as Self-discovery 63. John Stuart Mill s Autobiography 64. Edmund Gosse s Father and Son 65. Lessons from Mill and Gosse 66. Asceticism 67. Enlistment as Self-discovery 68. Solitude as Self-discovery 69. Asceticism as Self-discovery 70. Pluralist Realism about Self-knowledge 71. Self-knowledge and Self-realization 72. Autobiography and Self-knowledge 73. Routemap 5: Against Narrative, for Self-realization 74. Objection: What about You? Works Cited IndexReviewsAuthor InformationSamuel Clark is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at Lancaster University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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