Selfhood as Storytelling: Nehamas, Nietzsche, and Ricoeur
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2022
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Haverford College. Department of Philosophy
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In my thesis, I approach questions of what it means to be a subject after the loss of the referent through analysis of certain features of two philosophical works, Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas and Oneself as Another by Paul Ricoeur, that I employ to develop a compelling account of various aspects of subjectivity and our experience of our selfhood. These readings converge at the characterization of a person's life as exhibiting a literary character, the assertion that we might best know ourselves through conceptualizations modeled after literary production. I ultimately offer a way in which we might better conceive of our own subjectivity as it ties in with the telling of stories of the self, a process of self-fashioning we experience as mere recollection of truth.