Autobiography is a solidly established Autobiography becomes possible only under certain metaphysi cal preconditions. To begin with, at the cost of a cultural revolution humanity must have emerged from the mythic framework of tradi tional teachings and must have entered into the perilous domain of history.
The world to which In a watershed essay of , Georges Gusdorf sets forth what he calls the "conditions" of autobiography. "Autobiography becomes. possible," Gusdorf maintains, "only under certain metaphysical preconditions. To begin with, humanity must have emerged. entered into the perilous domain of history" (Olney, p. 30).
Conditions and Limits of Autobiography The world to which Eliade, Kearney, and Gusdorf are referring is thus distinctly pre-autobiographical. The reason is straightforward enough, according to Gusdorf: “Autobiography is not possible in a cultural landscape where consciousness of self does not, properly speaking, exist” (p. 30). This “unconsciousness of personality,”.
268-95, originally published in Autobiography is the inroad par excellence into exploring the dynamic features—as well as the profound challenges—of narrative inquiry, or at least that portion of it that looks to the comprehensive study of lives as an important vehicle for understanding the human condition.
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Which merit particular mention: “Conditions and Limits of Autobiography” translated by James Olney *Autobiography becomes possible only under certain metaphysical preconditions: 1. To begin with, at the cost of a cultural revolution, humanity must have emerged from the mythic framework of traditional teachings and must have entered into the perilous domain of history. The man.
Feminist scholars have argued Gusdorf, Georges. "Conditions and Limits of Autobiography". Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, Princeton: Princeton University Press, , pp.
Beginning with Wayne Shumaker's (1954) Gusdorf describes au- tobiography as an exclusively Western phenomenon. It seems that autobiography is not to be found outside of our cul- tural area; one would say that it expresses a concern peculiar to Western man, a concern that has been of good use in his system- atic conquest of the universe.
The theoretical debate about autobiography
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