Perspectives on the Self: Reflexivity in the Humanities

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Perspectives on the Self

Reflexivity in the Humanities

Edited by: Vojtěch Kolman and Tereza Matějčková

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698510

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About this book

The volume develops the concepts of the self and its reflexive nature as they are linked to modern thought from Hegel to Luhmann. The moderns are reflexive in a double sense: they create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world – society – in their own image. That the social world is reflexive means that it is made up of non-subjective (or supra-subjective) communication. The volume's contributors analyze this double reflexivity, of the self and society, from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing both on individual and social narratives. This broad, interdisciplinary approach is a distinctive mark of the entire project. The volume will be structured around the following axes: Self-making and reflexivity – theoretical topics; Social self and the modern world; Literature – self and narrativity; Creative Self – text and fine art. Among the contributors are some of the most renowned specialists in their respective fields, including J. F. Kervégan, B. Zabel, P. Stekeler-Weithofer, I. James, L. Kvasz, H. Ikäheimo and others.

Author / Editor information

Vojtěch Kolman and Tereza Matějčková, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Tereza Matějčková Open Access Download PDF	1
I Self-Making and Reflexivity – Theoretical Topics
Being in the World as Self-Making: On the Logical Concept of a Personal Life Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer Open Access Download PDF	19
“Spirit” – or the Self-Creating Life-Form of Persons and Its Constitutive Limits Heikki Ikäheimo Open Access Download PDF	43
The System Must Construct Itself – Narrativity and Autopoiesis in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Matthew Nini Open Access Download PDF	61
Autobiography and the Construction of Human Nature: Rousseau on the Relation between Self-Love and Pity David James Open Access Download PDF	81
II Social Self and the Modern World
Is the Grand Narrative of Rights at Its End? Jean-François Kervégan Open Access Download PDF	99
Post-Metaphysical Right? Modernity – Between Self-Reflection and Crisis Benno Zabel Open Access Download PDF	117
Autopoiesis and (Prosaic) Heroism: Of Gods and Overmen (and Giant Insects) Tereza Matějčková Open Access Download PDF	135
III Literature – Self and Narrativity
Narrative Voice, Heteropoiesis, and the Outside Ian James Open Access Download PDF	153
Paradoxes of Self-Creation and Narrativity in the Symbolist Novel Eva Voldřichová Beránková Open Access Download PDF	175
On Recognition, Duplication, and Self-Creativity in Colonial Contexts: Hegel, Fanon, Tournier Chiara Mengozzi Open Access Download PDF	189
“Sketch for a Self-Analysis”: Self-Reflexivity in Bourdieu’s Approach to Literature Josef Šebek Open Access Download PDF	209
IV Creative Self – Text and Fine Art
Changes of the Pictorial Form and the Development of the Self Ladislav Kvasz Open Access Download PDF	229
Why Doesn’t Laocoön Scream? Autopoiesis in Art Vojtěch Kolman Open Access Download PDF	257
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	271
Index of Subjects Open Access Download PDF	273

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in philosophy, literary studies, the history of art and the history of philosophy, insitutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 277
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Self; Reflexivity; Narrativity; Autopoiesis

eBook

Published: August 22, 2022
ISBN: 9783110698510

Hardcover

Published: August 22, 2022
ISBN: 9783110698459