RT Article
T1 Self-Identity: Mid-Twentieth Century Philosophical and Literary Interaction on the Experience of "I" and "Non-I"
JF Toronto journal of theology
VO 39
IS 2
SP 131
OP 138
A1 Gonotskaya, Nadezhda
LA English
PB School
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1871228204
AB This article substantiates the autonomy of a philosophical text in relation to a literary text. Max Frisch's novel "Stiller" is used to illustrate the idea of the dialectical nature of the process of concealing/revealing metaphysical meaning in a work of fiction regarding the problem of self-identification and the construction of one's own "I," which is pivotal in this novel. The philosophical idea of self-identity as the goal of the process of self-knowledge exists only as a projection; it is not feasible in life. On the contrary, the novel Stiller, considered through the prism of basic ideas of philosophy of the twentieth century, allows the reader not only to better understand the inconsistency of the process of self-knowledge, but that it involves a reconfiguration of meanings in a conversation about being, and therefore requires a philosophical revision of the essence of the problem.
K1 Max Frisch
K1 "I" and "non-I," identity
K1 novel Stiller
K1 Post-structuralism
K1 Self-knowledge
K1 Truth