Michaela Hulstyn

Unselfing

Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781487543761
• ISBN-10: 148754376X
• Artikelnr.: 63662945

Autorenporträt

Michaela Hulstyn teaches in the Structured Liberal Education program at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Toward a Cognitive-Phenomenological Approach to the Self
2. What Is Unselfing?
3. Unselfing as Disruption: Self-Knowledge and Pain in Paul Valéry and
Charlotte Delbo
4. Unselfing as Mutation: Hallucination and the Remains in Henri Michaux
and Yolande Mukagasana
5. Unselfing as Fragmentation: Languages of Alterity in Abdelkebir Khatibi
and Hélène Cixous
6. Unselfing as Destruction: De-creation and Inner Experience in Simone
Weil and Georges Bataille
Conclusion: The Promise and Peril of Unselfing