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A Philosophical Autofiction :

3030056120

9783030056124

9783030056117

A Philosophical Autofiction :

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Dolor's Youth /

Spencer Golub.

Cham, Switzerland :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2019.

1 online resource

Performance philosophy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Contents; Chapter 1 Preface; A Chapter Breakdown and Self-Critique for Philosophical Readers; Field-State; Non-Disclosure; Cowbird; Generational Loss; Form of Life; Dog Anabasis; I'm Not Like Everybody Else; Chapter 2 Field-State; Chapter 3 Non-Disclosure; Uncanny Resemblance; The World at Large, Writ Small; Enter Sandman; Movie Melancholia; Golubitsky; Chapter 4 Cowbird; And Now a Word from My Cancer ... ; Fallout; Falling/Fallen-Away; Celebrity/Skin; Chapter 5 Generational Loss; To Jupiter and Beyond; False Memories of the Son; Daughters of Chaos; Speech Contaminants; Precarity

Crimes Against Dolor(e)sWriting About "Her"; Chapter 6 Form of Life; Cruel West; A Strange Act of Providence; a.k.a.; Reunion; Operation Imbecile; Odd Friend Out; Chapter 7 Dog Anabasis; Sabre; Pilgrim's Regress; Christmas in Colonus; Reductio ad Hitlerum; Chapter 8 I'm Not Like Everybody Else; Broken; Magen Davids; "Closure"; Decoherence (Both ... And); Syncope; Index

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This is a book about what becomes of the truth when it succumbs to generational memory loss and to the fictions that intervene to cause and fill the gaps. It is a book about the impossibility of writing an autobiography when there is a prepossessing cultural and familial 'we' interfering with the 'I' and an 'I' that does not know itself as a self, except metastatically -- as people and characters it has played but not actually been. A highly original combination of close readings and performative autobiography, this book takes performance philosophy to an alternative next step, by having its ideas read back to it by experience, and through assorted fictions. It is a philosophical thought experiment in uncertainty whose literary, theatrical, and cinematic trappings illustrate and finally become what this uncertainty is, the thought experiment having become the life that was, that came before, and that outlives the 'I am'.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,1889-1951-- Criticism and interpretation.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,1889-1951.

Literature-- Philosophy.

Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Literature-- Philosophy.

Literature, Modern.

PHILOSOPHY-- Epistemology.

PHI-- 004000

Golub, Spencer.

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