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Author : Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262232326
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 : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525520031
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 : Vania Rheault
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781734405897
When Jax's fiancee leaves him at the altar, he has no choice but to bribe the church janitor to marry him. His reputation is at stake. She agrees because she's homeless and thinks of the money he's paying her as a chance to get on her feet. She signs the document and later he has to find her for a divorce. He helps her clean up and they fall in love. It comes out that he killed her brother in a freak accident.
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473582377
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 : William Rose Benét
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Identity (Psychology)
ISBN :
Author : Wolfgang Carl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110379368
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
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2007-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810124130
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 : Bert van Roermund
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788976444
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.
Author : Stephen Harold Riggins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0228007747
Social scientists' autobiographies can yield insight into personal commitments to research agendas and the very project of social science itself. But despite the long history of life writing, sociologists have tended to view the practice with skepticism. Canadian Sociologists in the First Person is the first book to survey the Canadian sociological imagination through personal recollections. Exploring the lives and experiences of twenty contributors from across the country, this book connects the unique and shared features of their careers to broad social dynamics while providing a guide to their own research and administrative contributions to their universities, their profession, and their broader society and communities. The contributors teach in different types of institutions, are prominent in the discipline and in their specializations, and represent significant and diverse intellectual currents, political perspectives, and life and career experiences. Aiming to start a broad conversation about what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from an insider's perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century.
Author : Maximilian de Gaynesford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199287821
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 thekey 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.