The self in moral space
Subtitle: life narrative and the good
By: David Parker.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780801445613
Subjects: Autobiography -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Identity (Psychology) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making the best sense of lives; title: Wang Shih-Min's "self-account" : an exemplary life; title: Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and the limits of life narrative; title: Nietzsche's Ecce homo : inescapable frameworks of the good; title: Narratives of supersession : Augustine's Confessions; title: Narratives of supersession : Wordsworth's Prelude; title: Narrative of authenticity : Gosse's Father and son; title: Authenticity and recognition : Steedman's Landscape for a good woman; title: Difference and its discontents; title: Common humanity and its limits : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father; title: Seamus Heaney : recognizing the other; title: Coetzee's Boyhood : toward an aesthetics of life narrative.