The self in moral space : life narrative and the good / David Parker.

Author/creator Parker, David, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Descriptionix, 195 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Making the best sense of lives -- Wang Shih-min's "self-account" : an exemplary life -- Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and the limits of life narrative -- Nietzsche's Ecce homo : inescapable frameworks of the good -- Narratives of supersession : Augustine's Confessions -- Narratives of supersession : Wordsworth's Prelude -- Narrative of authenticity : Gosse's Father and son -- Authenticity and recognition : Steedman's Landscape for a good woman -- Difference and its discontents -- Common humanity and its limits : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father -- Seamus Heaney : recognizing the other -- Coetzee's Boyhood : toward an aesthetics of life narrative.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.
LCCN 2006039786
ISBN9780801445613 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0801445612 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks CT25.P37 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold