Self-Knowledge A History

by Renz, Ursula

• ISBN13: 9780190226411
• ISBN10: 0190226412
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-12-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She has widely published about early modern philosophy, Neo-Kantianism and the history of philosophy mind. Her book Die Erklärbarkeit der Erfahrung. Realismus und Subjektivität in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes (2010), was awarded with the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize in 2011, and will be translated in English by Oxford University Press.

Table of Contents

Reflection I: Does Homer's Odysseus know himself? Tobias Myers
1. Self-Knowledge in Plato Rachana Kamtekar
2. Aristotle´s Requisite of Self-Knowledge Christopher Shields
3. Self-Knowledge in Later Stoicism Marcel van Ackeren
4. Self-Knowledge in Plotinus: Becoming Who You Are Pauliina Remes
5. Augustine on Self-Knowledge and Human Subjectivity Johannes Brachtendorf
6. Self-Knowledge in Scholasticism Dominik Perler
7. Self-Knowledge, Abnegation, and Fulfillment in Medieval Mysticism Christina van Dyke
8. Socratic Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy Ursula Renz
9. Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception in Modern Moral Philosophy Aaron Garrett
10. Kant´s Ideal of Self-Knowledge Dina Emundts
Reflection II: Shelley and the Limit of Self-Knowlege Laura Quinney
11. Self-Knowledge in Kierkegaard John Lippitt
12. Self-Knowledge as Freedom in Schopenhauer and Freud Bernard Reginster
13. Husserl´s Phenomenology and the Project of Transcendental Self-Knowledge Dermot Moran
Reflection III: Romare Bearden and a Collage of Self-Knowledge Yasmine Espert
14. Self-Knowledge in Hermeneutic Philosophy Charles Guignon
15. The First Person and Self-Knowledge in Analytic Philosophy Sebastian Rödl
Reflection IV: Self-Knowledge and Self-Portraiture Christopher Wood