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

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013)
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Abstract

Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which explore the idea of selfhood as a matter of non-self-identity: for example, as becoming or self-overcoming, or as being doubled or divided. He draws on Nietzsche, Sartre, and Wittgenstein, but also on works of opera, cinema, and fiction

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Exemplars of Identity

Proper names are a recurring feature of the text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Their presence may be taken to register the text's continual engagement with other philosophical texts that constituted its author's immediate philosophical inheritance. What, however, i... see more

Fetters, Shadows, and Circles

This chapter explores how Nietzsche's book, Human, All Too Human relates to other stages in his intellectual career. Nietzsche has characterized Human, All Too Human as resulting from his sudden, uncontrollable, and imperious impulse to free himself from a situation defined by his loyalty ... see more

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