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Zusatztext a philosophical-cum-literary tour de force. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Mulhall is a Professor of Philosophy, and a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Oxford. He was previously a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction Dramatis Personae Exemplars of Identity: The Bearing of Proper Names in the Philosophical Investigations Smoking in Wartime: Sartrean Scenes I Orchestral Metaphysics: The Birth of Tragedy Between Drama, Opera and Philosophy The Metaphysics of (Secret) Agency Or: Three Ways of Not Being James Bond The Gamblers of Roulettenburg: Sartrean Scenes II The Melodramatic Reality of Film and Literature Or: Elizabeth Costello's Cinematic Sisters Fetters, Shadows and Circles: Freedom and Form in Human, All Too Human The Trials of Desire: Sartrean Scenes III Countering the Ballad of Co-Dependency: The Realistic Spirit of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Promising Animal: The Art of Reading On the Genealogy of Morality as Testimony The Decipherment of Signs: Sartrean Scenes IV Quartet: Wallace's Wittgenstein, Moran's Amis Bibliography Filmography
