Why "autography"? Because there really is no genre for feminist self-writing. This is the territory, between autobiography and feminist thought, that Jeanne Perreault marks out. Writing Selves retheorizes ideas of self, identity, and community as embodied and textualized forces …
Locke, Hume and Kant on selfhood -- The ambiguity of embodiment : first- and third-personal perspectives -- Intersubjectivity and the second-personal perspective -- The embodied self and narrative identity -- Narrative identity and the ethical perspective -- Practical wisdom and…
This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human …
An extended literary description and analysis of Emerson's journals, which argues that these works constitute one of the greatest commentaries on 19th century America, realizing Emerson's standards of literary excellence morefully than his other writings.