Unselfing - Global French Literature At the Limits of Consciousness

Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Toward a Cognitive-Phenomenological Approach to the Self
2. What Is Unselfing?
3. Unselfing as Disruption: Self-Knowledge and Pain in Paul Valéry and Charlotte Delbo
4. Unselfing as Mutation: Hallucination and the Remains in Henri Michaux and Yolande Mukagasana
5. Unselfing as Fragmentation: Languages of Alterity in Abdelkebir Khatibi and Hélène Cixous
6. Unselfing as Destruction: De-creation and Inner Experience in Simone Weil and Georges Bataille
Conclusion: The Promise and Peril of Unselfing

About the author

Michaela Hulstyn teaches in the Structured Liberal Education program at Stanford University.

Summary

Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered.

Product details

• Authors: Michaela Hulstyn
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781487543761
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-4376-1
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day