Self-Knowledge and the Self

In this clear and reasoned discussion of self- knowledge and the self the author asks whether it is really possible to know ourselves as we really are. He illuminates issues about the nature of self-identity which are of fundamental importance in moral psychology epistemology and literary criticism.Jopling focuses on the accounts of Stuart Hampshire Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Rorty and dialogical philosophical psychology and illustrates his argument with examples from literature drama and psychology.