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Visual Art and Self-Construction (Crosscurrents) - Hardcover

Mitcheson, Katrina

 
9780748693672: Visual Art and Self-Construction (Crosscurrents)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 074869367X ISBN 13: 9780748693672
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Starting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self. Critically examining Ricoeur’s narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that the narrative model overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. She develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self: exploring how visual art can operate as a critical technology of the self. Art not only exposes practices that contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore and affect bodily processes, enabling experimentation in self-construction.

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About the Author

Katrina Mitcheson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. She is the author of Nietzsche, Truth and Transformation (Palgrave, 2013).

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Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the self Starting from criticisms of a simple, given self, found in Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self. Critically examining Ricoeur's narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that narrative as a model of self-construction overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, this study develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self. Diverse examples are explored of how visual art can operate not only as a critical technology of the self, exposing practices which contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore, and affect bodily processes, thereby enabling experimentation in self-construction.

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Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the selfStarting from criticisms of a simple, given self, found in Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self.Critically examining Ricoeur s narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that narrative as a model of self-construction overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, this study develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self. Diverse examples are explored of how visual art can operate not only as a critical technology of the self, exposing practices which contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore, and affect bodily processes, thereby enabling experimentation in self-construction.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
074869367X
ISBN 13 
9780748693672
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
176