Autopoiesis and (Prosaic) Heroism: Of Gods and Overmen (and Giant Insects)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. List of Abbreviations VII
4. Introduction 1
5. I Self-Making and Reflexivity – Theoretical Topics
6. Being in the World as Self-Making: On the Logical Concept of a Personal Life 19
7. “Spirit” – or the Self-Creating Life-Form of Persons and Its Constitutive Limits 43
8. The System Must Construct Itself – Narrativity and Autopoiesis in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre 61
9. Autobiography and the Construction of Human Nature: Rousseau on the Relation between Self-Love and Pity 81
10. II Social Self and the Modern World
11. Is the Grand Narrative of Rights at Its End? 99
12. Post-Metaphysical Right? Modernity – Between Self-Reflection and Crisis 117
13. Autopoiesis and (Prosaic) Heroism: Of Gods and Overmen (and Giant Insects) 135
14. III Literature – Self and Narrativity
15. Narrative Voice, Heteropoiesis, and the Outside 153
16. Paradoxes of Self-Creation and Narrativity in the Symbolist Novel 175
17. On Recognition, Duplication, and Self-Creativity in Colonial Contexts: Hegel, Fanon, Tournier 189
18. “Sketch for a Self-Analysis”: Self-Reflexivity in Bourdieu’s Approach to Literature 209
19. IV Creative Self – Text and Fine Art
20. Changes of the Pictorial Form and the Development of the Self 229
21. Why Doesn’t Laocoön Scream? Autopoiesis in Art 257
22. Index of Names 271
23. Index of Subjects 273