{"product_id":"unselfing-global-french-literature-at-the-limits-of-consciousness-hardback-9781487543761","title":"Unselfing; Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness (Hardback) 9781487543761","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnselfing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGlobal French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichaela Hulstyn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487543761\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAltered states of consciousness – including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence – can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnselfing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichaela 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, \u003ci\u003eUnselfing\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new methodology for approaching texts that give shape to the fringes of conscious experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Toward a Cognitive-Phenomenological Approach to the Self\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. What Is Unselfing?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Unselfing as Disruption: Self-Knowledge and Pain in Paul Valéry and Charlotte Delbo \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Unselfing as Mutation: Hallucination and the Remains in Henri Michaux and Yolande Mukagasana\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Unselfing as Fragmentation: Languages of Alterity in Abdelkebir Khatibi and Hélène Cixous\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Unselfing as Destruction: De-creation and Inner Experience in Simone Weil and Georges Bataille\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Promise and Peril of Unselfing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685677199640,"sku":"9781487543761","price":38.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unselfing-global-french-literature-at-the-limits-of-consciousness-hardback-9781487543761","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}