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Unselfing : global French literature at the limits of consciousness

Summary: "Altered states of consciousness--including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence--can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have taken in literary writing. The book focuses on the tension between rival conceptions of unselfing as either a form of productive self-transcendence or a form of alienating self-loss. Michaela Hulstyn explores the shapes and meanings of unselfing through the framework of the global French literary world, encompassing texts by modernist figures in France and Belgium alongside writers from Algeria, Rwanda, and Morocco. Together, these diverse texts prompt a re-evaluation of the consequences of the loss or the transcendence of the self. Through a series of close readings, Hulstyn offers a new account of the ethical questions raised by altered states and shows how philosophies of empathy can be tested against and often challenged by literary works. Drawing on cognitive science and phenomenology, Unselfing provides a new methodology for approaching texts that give shape to the fringes of conscious experience."--

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ISBN: 9781487543761
ISBN: 9781487543778
ISBN: 9781487543556
ISBN: 1487543778
ISBN: 1487543557
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages).
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Computer data.
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Copyright: �2022

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:november.22 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Toward a Cognitive-Phenomenological Approach to the Self -- What Is Unselfing? -- Unselfing as Disruption: Self-Knowledge and Pain in Paul Val�ery and Charlotte Delbo -- Unselfing as Mutation: Hallucination and the Remains in Henri Michaux and Yolande Mukagasana -- Unselfing as Fragmentation: Languages of Alterity in Abdelkebir Khatibi and H�el�ene Cixous -- Unselfing as Destruction: Decreation and Inner Experience in Simone Weil and Georges Bataille -- Epilogue: Unselfing and Coming Home.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 11, 2022).