Genevieve Lloyd

Being in Time (eBook, PDF)

Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"Being in Time is a provocative and accessible essay on the fragmentation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature. This original study is unique in its focus on the literary aspects of philosophical writing and their interactions with philosophical content. It explores the emotional aspects of the human experience of time commonly neglected in philosophical investigation by looking at how narrative creates and treats the experience of the self as fragmented and the past as "lost." Genevieve Lloyd demonstrates the continuities and the contrasts between modern philosophic discussions of the instability of the knowing subject, treatments of the fragmentation of the self in the modern novel, and older philosophical discussions of the unity of consciousness.
Combining theoretical discussion with human experience, "Being in Time will be important reading to anyone interested in the relationship between philosophy and literature, as well as to more general audience of readers who share Augustine's experience of time as making him a "problem to himself."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134909131
• Artikelnr.: 42981922

Autorenporträt

Genevieve Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and author of The Man of Reason: 'Male' and 'Female' in Western Philosophy (London, Routledge, 1984). She has published papers on the metaphysics of time, on the history of philosophy, philosophy and literature, and philosophical aspects of gender.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Augustine and the 'problem' of time
2 The self: unity and fragmentation
Descartes: the unity of thinking substance
Hume's labyrinth and the painting of modern life
Kant: the unity of apperception 3 The past: loss or eternal return? Bergson: time and loss
Nietzsche: 'ill will towards time' 4 Life and literature
Proust: 'life realized within the confines of a book'
Virginia Woolf: moments of being. Conclusion: philosophy and literature