Personal Identity and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367210687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 174 str.

Patrick Colm Hogan

Opis

In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan draws on cognitive and affective science as well as literary works and personal experience. The book provides a clear, systematic account of personal identity that is theoretically strong, but also unique and engaging.

Spis treści

Foreword: Shame  Introduction: Know Thyself  1. Basic Principles  2. Kinds of Self  3. Becoming Oneself: Society and Identity  4. Understanding Ourselves: On Empathy   5. Shame, Guilt, and Trauma  6. Subjectivity and Loneliness  Afterword: A Question of Dignity  Works Cited

O autorze

Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of over twenty books, including Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists (Routledge, 2003), Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition (Routledge, 2013), and Literature and Emotion (Routledge, 2018).