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Author:

Parker, David, 1943-

Title:

The self in moral space : life narrative and the good / David Parker.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

ix, 195 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Autobiography--Moral and ethical aspects.
Identity (Psychology)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.

Contents:

Making the best sense of lives -- Wang Shih-Min's "self-account" : an exemplary life -- Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and the limits of life narrative -- Nietzsche's Ecce homo : inescapable frameworks of the good -- Narratives of supersession : Augustine's Confessions -- Narratives of supersession : Wordsworth's Prelude -- Narrative of authenticity : Gosse's Father and son -- Authenticity and recognition : Steedman's Landscape for a good woman -- Difference and its discontents -- Common humanity and its limits : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father -- Seamus Heaney : recognizing the other -- Coetzee's Boyhood : toward an aesthetics of life narrative.

ISBN:

0801445612 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801445613 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76939888

LCCN:

2006039786

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)