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Deleuze and Ricoeur

By Declan Sheerin

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Deleuze and Ricoeur

By Declan Sheerin

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What is the self? Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche? Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics and soap operas - a multitude of forces culled from fashion, modern myth, culture and recreation? Or must we still convince ourselves, like Rousseau, that the self can never be tainted; that it is, above all else, irrefrangible? Paul Ricoeur proposed that the self is formed within the narratives we tell of ourselves, that it is itself a form of narrative. But is this enough? Could a self cohere in a multitude of potential narratives or find unity among its stories? In this book, Declan Sheerin challenges the theory that the self is narrative alone or that concordance reigns over discordance in the self. Drawing upon the works of Gilles Deleuze, he proposes that deep to the sense of a unified, represented self is a more fundamental self of difference, a self that is more than merely coherent narrative.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
262
Release Date:
2009-10-01
Publication Date:
2009-08-03
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1441124489
ISBN13:
9781441124487
Weight:
561 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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