Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness

Author:   Garry Hagberg (University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199234226


Pages:   282
Publication Date:   22 May 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness


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Author:   Garry Hagberg (University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.479kg
ISBN:  

9780199234226


ISBN 10:   0199234221
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   22 May 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Confronting the Cartesian Legacy 1: Autobiographical Consciousness 2: The Self, Reflected 3: The Self, Speaking 4: The Self, Thinking 5: The Question of True Self-Interpretation 6: The Uniqueness of Person-Perception 7: Rethinking Self-Interpretation Acknowledgments Index

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The book contains much of philosophical interest... It is, after all, a first landing on a virtually unexplored and perilous shore... [a] marvelous accomplishment Dale Jacquette, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


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Garry L. Hagberg presently holds a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, and has for some years served as the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College. He is the author of Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory and Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge (both Cornell University Press), he recently edited Art and Ethical Criticism and is co-editing A Companion to Philosophy of Literature (both for Blackwell). He has contributed widely to journals, collections, and reference works, and is presently completing a series of articles on literary experience and self-formation. Hagberg is joint editor, with Denis Dutton, of the journal Philosophy and Literature.

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