Parker, David, 1943-

The self in moral space : life narrative and the good / David Parker. - ix, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index.

Making the best sense of lives -- Wang Shih-Min's "self-account" : an exemplary life -- Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and the limits of life narrative -- Nietzsche's Ecce homo : inescapable frameworks of the good -- Narratives of supersession : Augustine's Confessions -- Narratives of supersession : Wordsworth's Prelude -- Narrative of authenticity : Gosse's Father and son -- Authenticity and recognition : Steedman's Landscape for a good woman -- Difference and its discontents -- Common humanity and its limits : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father -- Seamus Heaney : recognizing the other -- Coetzee's Boyhood : toward an aesthetics of life narrative.

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Autobiography--Moral and ethical aspects
Identity (Psychology)--Moral and ethical aspects

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