Screen LibraryVisual art and self-construction /
"Starting from the criticisms of a simple, given self, found in Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault, 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...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Crosscurrents
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"Starting from the criticisms of a simple, given self, found in Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault, 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 narrative as a model of self-construction overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of theses processes. Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, this study develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self. Diverse examples are explored of how visual art can operate not only as a critical technology of the self, exposing practices which contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore, and affect bodily processes, thereby enabling experimentation in self-construction"-- |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-155) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780748693672 074869367X |
| Index Number: | N71 |
| CLC: |
J0-02 J0-05 |
| Call Number: | J0-05/M682 |