The First Person

Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525520031
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Person written by Richard Flanagan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book. But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns”—which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him—his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth. By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.

Author : Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262232326
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Person written by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between story and game, and related questions of electronic writing and play, examined through a series of discussions among new media creators and theorists.

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473582377
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Person Singular written by Haruki Murakami and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist. A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK

Author : Cameron West
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786889785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Person Plural written by Cameron West and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one man's struggle with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) & the 24 personalities that live within him. In this book readers accompany Cameron West on a roller coaster ride as he desperately tries to hang on to his family, his life & the thin red thread of reality that connects him to the world. The book chronicles his hunt for evidence to help him cope with & understand why his alter personalities are using his voice & body to retell & relive childhood sexual abuse.

Author : Lynne Rudder Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199914737
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective written by Lynne Rudder Baker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and its philosophical companion, Naturalism, represent reality in wholly nonpersonal terms. How, if at all, can a nonpersonal scheme accommodate the first-person perspective that we all enjoy? In this volume, Lynne Rudder Baker explores that question by considering both reductive and eliminative approaches to the first-person perspective. After finding both approaches wanting, she mounts an original constructive argument to show that a non-Cartesian first-person perspective belongs in the basic inventory of what exists. That is, the world that contains us persons is irreducibly personal. After arguing for the irreducibilty and ineliminability of the first-person perspective, Baker develops a theory of this perspective. The first-person perspective has two stages, rudimentary and robust. Human infants and nonhuman animals with consciousness and intentionality have rudimentary first-person perspectives. In learning a language, a person acquires a robust first-person perspective: the capacity to conceive of oneself as oneself, in the first person. By developing an account of personal identity, Baker argues that her theory is coherent, and she shows various ways in which first-person perspectives contribute to reality.

Author : Samuel Charles Coval
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317440447
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scepticism and the First Person written by Samuel Charles Coval and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966. This book considers the perceived asymmetries between the self and others, or between self and things. An in-depth analysis of scepticism, dualism, belief, knowledge and semantics. A topic which is central to both epistemology but also the whole of contemporary philosophy.

Author : Wolfgang Carl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110379368
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First-Person Point of View written by Wolfgang Carl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interest in a better understanding of what is constitutive for being a person is a concern philosophy shares with some of the sciences. The views currently discussed in evolutionary biology and in the neurosciences are very much influenced by traditional philosophical views about the self and self-knowledge, while contemporary philosophical accounts are not considered at all. Such an account will be given by an analysis of three focal elements of the use of the first-person pronoun. These elements have something to do with the faculty of taking a first-person point of view. The conceptual structure of this point of view is explained by comparing it with a second- and third-person point of view. There is an extensive discussion of various views about self-knowledge (Davidson, Bilgrami, Burge), and a new conception of authoritative self-knowledge is established. The first-person point of view is a reflexive attitude which includes various attitudes to one's past and future. These attitudes are necessarily or contingently de se. By bringing into focus the concern for one's future intentions will be discussed as an activity-based attitude, while there are other attitudes, like hope or fear, which are shaped by the acceptance of one's future situations which are not, or not completely under one's control. This view gives rise to a criticism of Frankfurt's notion of Caring.

Author : Alphonso Lingis
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810124130
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Person Singular written by Alphonso Lingis and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lingis's singular works of philosophy aren't so much written as performed, and in this work the performance is brilliant, a consummate act of philosophical reckoning. This book is, at the same time, an elegant cultural analysis of how subjectivity is differently and collectively understood, invested, and situated.

Author : Maximilian de Gaynesford
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191537047
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I: The Meaning of the First Person Term written by Maximilian de Gaynesford and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a constant source of philosophical confusion. Max de Gaynesford offers a remedy: he explains what this expression means, its logical form and its inferential role. He thereby shows the way to an understanding of how we express first-personal thinking. He dissolves various myths about how I refers, to the effect that it is a pure indexical. His central claim is that the key to understanding I is that it is the same kind of expression as the other singular personal pronouns, you and he/she: a deictic term, whose reference depends on making an individual salient. He addresses epistemological questions as well as semantic questions, and shows how they interrelate. The book thus not only resolves a key issue in philosophy of language, but promises to be of great use to people working on problems in other areas of philosophy.

Author : Bert van Roermund
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788976444
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law in the First Person Plural written by Bert van Roermund and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive book offers an innovative understanding of Rousseau’s politico-legal philosophy to illustrate the legal significance of plural agency and what it means for a people to act together. Testing these ideas in controversial contemporary debates, Bert van Roermund provides a critical assessment of ‘political theology’ and establishes a new interpretation of joint action as bodily entrenched.