• ISBN13: 9781399511186
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: February 6, 2023
• Pages: 176
• Original Price: USD 28.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 250 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Aesthetics

Starting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, 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 the narrative model overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. She develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self: exploring how visual art can operate as a critical technology of the self. Art not only exposes practices that contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore and affect bodily processes, enabling experimentation in self-construction.

Mitcheson, Katrina: - Katrina Mitcheson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. She is the author of Nietzsche, Truth and Transformation (Palgrave, 2013).