"Narrative Self, Lyric Self, Absent Self: Literary, Psychological, and Philosophical Approaches to Self-Fashioning."
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February 22-23, 2013
"Narrative Self, Lyric Self, Absent
Self: Literary, Psychological, and Philosophical
Approaches to Self-Fashioning."
Which is more important: the harmony of
a soul or the arc of a life? Does unified selfhood mean overcoming
inner division or does it mean overcoming change across time,
linking together a series of discrete episodes into a single
coherent narrative? And is unity (of either sort) something we
should want in the first place?
Philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists come together
to discuss these questions at èצӰÏñ in February, 2013. At issue:
what personal identity might consist in; why we might want it (or
not); how literary models—both lyric and
narrative—can help to guide us; and how much depends, in
all cases, on other
people.
Cosponsored by the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Department of Philosophy, and the èצӰÏñ Humanities Center
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