Self and Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts

by Stephen Mulhall

Book Overview

Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of the idea that selfhood is best conceived as a matter of non-self-identity--for example, as becoming or self-overcoming, or as being what one is not and not being what one is, or as being doubled or divided...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199661782
• ISBN13: 9780199661787
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"