Mark Rowlands

Memory and the Self

Phenomenology, Science and Autobiography

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Produktbeschreibung

Our memories, many believe, make us who we are. But most of our experiences have been forgotten, and the memories that remain are often wildly inaccurate. How, then, can memories play this person-making role? The answer lies in a largely unrecognized type of memory: Rilkean memory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190241469
• ISBN-10: 0190241462
• Artikelnr.: 47864007

Autorenporträt

Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of eighteen books and over a hundred journal articles, chapters and reviews, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His memoir, The Philosopher and the Wolf, became an international bestseller.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Memory and the Self: An Adumbration of Some Major Themes
2. The Varieties of Remembering
3. Rilkean Memory
4. The Metaphysical and the Autobiographical Self
5. The Problem of Forgetting
6. The Problem of Falsity
7. Rilkean Memory and the Style of a Person
8. The Presence of Self in Memory
9. The Content of Memory
10. The Waters of Lethe
References
Index