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Vanishing Selves: Negotiating Selfhood in Self-Representational Works by Goethe, Sand, and Nietzsche

Vanishing Selves: Negotiating Selfhood in Self-Representational Works by Goethe, Sand, and Nietzsche

Hardcover

Series: Nordeuropaeische Arbeiten Zur Literatur, Sprache Und Kultur, Book 14

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631856717
ISBN13: 9783631856710
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Dec 13 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This study examines a series of self-representations from the 19th century (by Goethe, Sand, Nietzsche) that obstruct a confessional and psychologizing mode by diminishing the significance of the self. The theoretical inspiration is drawn from thinkers like Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others, who give priority to the individual's close attachment to a multifaceted world. This approach will lead us to themes and concepts like participation, perception, togetherness, otherness, corporeality, collectivism, publicness, and sociality. Vanishing Selves displays different forms of attachment to the world and identifies the ethical and existential potential in the affirmation of a world.

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