1st Edition
Being in Time Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature
By Genevieve Lloyd
Copyright 1993
202 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Genevieve Lloyd's book is a provocative and accessible essay on the fragmentation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature. The past is irrevocable, consciousness changes as time passes: given this, can there ever be such a thing as the unity of the self? Being in Time explores the emotional aspects of the human experience of time, commonly neglected in philosophical investigation,... Read more
Introduction 1 Augustine and the ‘problem’ of time; 2 The self: unity and fragmentation; Descartes: the unity of thinking substance; Hume’s labyrinth and the painting of modern life; Kant: the unity of apperception 3 The past: loss or eternal return? Bergson: time and loss; Nietzsche: ‘ill will towards time’ 4 Life and literature; Proust: ‘life realized within the confines of a book’; Virginia Woolf: moments of being. Conclusion: philosophy and literature
Biography
Genevieve Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and author of The Man of Reason: ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ in Western Philosophy (London, Routledge, 1984). She has published papers on the metaphysics of time, on the history of philosophy, philosophy and literature, and philosophical aspects of gender.
