Description
Starting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self. Critically examining Ricoeur's narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that the narrative model overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. She develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self: exploring how visual art can operate as a critical technology of the self. Art not only exposes practices that contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore and affect bodily processes, enabling experimentation in self-construction.
Author: Katrina Mitcheson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/06/2023
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.37d
ISBN13: 9781399511186
ISBN10: 1399511181
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
About the Author
Katrina Mitcheson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. She is the author of Nietzsche, Truth and Transformation (Palgrave, 2013).