A Strange Condition of Things: Alterity and Knowingness in Dickens' "David Copperfield"

Autor/in	Smith, Richard
Titel	A Strange Condition of Things: Alterity and Knowingness in Dickens' "David Copperfield"
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45 (2013) 4, S.371-382 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2012.718144
Schlagwörter	Novels; Nineteenth Century Literature; English Literature; Self Concept; Psychiatry; Philosophy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Novel; Roman; Englische literatur; Selbstkonzept; Psychiatrie; Philosophie
Abstract	It is sometimes said that we are strangers to ourselves, bearers of internal alterity, as well as to each other. The profounder this strangeness then the greater the difficulty of giving any systematic account of it without paradox: of supposing that our obscurity to ourselves can readily be illuminated. To attempt such an account, in defiance of the paradox, is to risk knowingness: a condition which, appearing to challenge our alterity but in fact often confirming it, holds an ambiguous place in the "ethics of belief" and has largely escaped philosophical attention. Like alterity, knowingness can only be approached indirectly. Charles Dickens, in "David Copperfield", is exemplary in the way he handles these themes. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10