At any given time our selfhood is the sum of our memories and Knausgaard understands that this means the throwaway ore as well as the precious metal.
Mabey's forthcoming The Cabaret of Plants argues for "a new language" with which to accommodate the "selfhood" of plants: "metaphor and analogy may be the best we can do, but they will have to be toughened by an acceptance that the plant world is a parallel life system to our own, intimately connected with it, but still existentially different".
No one should be forced to continue suffering if they find their plight humiliating, their sense of selfhood destroyed.
When she screamed as a young woman it was "like disembowelling myself", an annihilation of selfhood.
It was an assertion of selfhood.
One's very selfhood depends upon this repetition, for according to Anti-Climacus, the self "is a relation which relates itself to itself" (The Sickness Unto Death).
Uncertain of where they are ultimately headed and seldom sure how to achieve the goals they embrace as they go along, yet game for the adventure, the mother and lover transgress rigid, modernist norms of selfhood.
One corollary of this masculinized view of selfhood is that women are consigned to selflessness that is, to invisibility, subservient passivity, and self-sacrificial altruism.
Addressing this paradox requires challenging "master narratives" and traditional canons of philosophy, through turning toward "slave narratives" and other subversive philosophical cultures for alternative views of identity and selfhood (Willett 1995) and through reasserting the identity of women in manners that transform stereotypes into liberating modes of selfhood.
Aware of herself as having been born into the world, awakening to her own free selfhood, the human being is called on to enter into those relations with others in the world that will realize the redemptive unity of the "All".
At the center of this speech-thinking is a philosophy of dialogue which traces the awakening of selfhood through an I-You relation into which the self is called by the Absolute other.
