The Self in Moral Space: Life Narrative and the Good

by David Parker

Book Overview

All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor, among others, David Parker examines a range of classic and contemporary autobiographies--including those of St. Augustine, William Wordsworth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Gosse, Roland Barthes, Seamus Heaney, and J. M. Coetzee--to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801445612
• ISBN13: 9780801445613
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher