The Wild Region in Life-History

By Laszlo Tengelyi

Book Overview

A tour de force by one of Hungary's most interesting contemporary philosophers The Wild Region in Life-History outlines a phenomenological approach to some of the main topics of theoretical philosophy, such as meaning, sense, temporality, unity of life, narrative history, self-identity, and intersubjectivity, as well as an ethics of alterity. In his investigations, L szl Tengelyi's point of departure is a critical examination of what is commonly referred to as "the narrative view of the self," which tends to equate life-history and personal identity. Challenging this view as too one-dimensional and reflective, Tengelyi reveals a hidden area of sense-formation in life-history--an area in which force and meaning do not merely blend but in many ways undermine each other. It is this hidden area that The Wild Region in Life-History describes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810116618
• ISBN13: 9780810116610
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"