"Narrative Self, Lyric Self, Absent Self: Literary, Psychological, and Philosophical Approaches to Self-Fashioning."
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February 22-23, 2013
"Narrative Self, Lyric Self, Absent
Self: Literary, Psychological, and Philosophical
Approaches to Self-Fashioning."
Which is more important: the harmony of
a soul or the arc of a life? Does unified selfhood mean overcoming
inner division or does it mean overcoming change across time,
linking together a series of discrete episodes into a single
coherent narrative? And is unity (of either sort) something we
should want in the first place?
Philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists come together
to discuss these questions at ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ in February, 2013. At issue:
what personal identity might consist in; why we might want it (or
not); how literary models—both lyric and
narrative—can help to guide us; and how much depends, in
all cases, on other
people.
Cosponsored by the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Department of Philosophy, and the ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ Humanities Center
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