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This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of contexts in human life. By treating these events as social as well as individual phenomena, the essays bring to light the various ways in which cultural and institutional forces influence narratives of personal change.
List of contents
1. Introduction
Michael Campbell 2. Varieties of Transformation
Michael Campbell 3. What Does it Take to be Transformed?
Constantine Sandis 4. Irreversible Enlightenments: A Reading of Plato's
Meno Sophie Grace Chappell 5. Individual Epiphany, Social Change: Reflections on Some Conditions of Moral Possibility
Nora Hämäläinen 6. A Light-Hearted Pessimism
Ond¿ej Beran 7. Environment, Democracy, and Self-Transformation
Piergiorgio Donatelli 8. Popular Culture and Transformative Experience
Sandra Laugier 9. "Now touched by a wave:" Technology, Violence, and Imagination
Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon 10. Coming Unstuck
Michael Campbell
About the author
Michael Campbell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethics at Kyoto University, Japan. He has co-edited two volumes of Peter Winch's previously unpublished writings -
Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding (with S. Tropper, 2021) and
Political Authority: Contract and Critique (with L. Reid, 2024). He is also the co-editor of
Wittgenstein and Perception (with M. O'Sullivan, Routledge, 2013).
Summary
This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of contexts in human life. By treating these events as social as well as individual phenomena, the essays bring to light the various ways in which cultural and institutional forces influence narratives of personal change.
