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"Altered states of consciousness--including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence--can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have taken in literary writing. The book focuses on the tension between rival conceptions of unselfing as either a form of productive self-transcendence or a form of alienating self-loss. Michaela Hulstyn explores the shapes and meanings of unselfing through the framework of the global French literary world, encompassing texts by modernist figures in France and Belgium alongside writers from Algeria, Rwanda, and Morocco. Together, these diverse texts prompt a re-evaluation of the consequences of the loss or the transcendence of the self. Through a series of close readings, Hulstyn offers a new account of the ethical questions raised by altered states and shows how philosophies of empathy can be tested against and often challenged by literary works. Drawing on cognitive science and phenomenology, Unselfing provides a new methodology for approaching texts that give shape to the fringes of conscious experience."--

États modifies de conscience dans la litterature. --- Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature. --- Litterature française --- Altered states of consciousness in literature. --- Self in literature. --- French literature --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Abdelkebir Khatibi. --- Charlotte Delbo. --- Francophone. --- French literature. --- Georges Bataille. --- Henri Michaux. --- Hélène Cixous. --- Paul Valéry. --- Simone Weil. --- Yolande Mukagasana. --- autobiography. --- phenomenology. --- self. --- unselfing. --- Self in literature --- History and criticism

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This volume draws together a diverse array of scholars from across the humanities to formulate and address the question of “ethics and literary practice” for a new decade. In taking up a conjunction whose terms remain productively open to question, fifteen essays survey a range of approaches and topics including genre and disciplinary rhetoric, emergence theory and literary signification, the ethics of alterity, of attention, and of aesthetics, the decolonial and the paracritical, neorealism and contingency, analogy and affect, scripture and national literature. From Seamus Heaney to Hannah Arendt, Teresa Brennan to Stanley Cavell, Ronit Matalon to Édouard Glissant, Uwe Timm to Katherena Vermette, Notes for Echo Lake to the Gospel of St. Matthew, these contributions demonstrate how broadly and fruitfully ramifying its organizing inquiry can be. Bringing such multifarious perspectives to the topic feels only more urgent as language, meaning, and expression enter the crucible of a “post-truth” era.

Ethics --- Stanley Cavell --- Michael Palmer --- poetry --- American philosophy --- Ralph Waldo Emerson --- poetics --- language poetry --- moral perfectionism --- emergence --- aesthetics --- mimesis --- Adorno --- ethics --- literature --- skepticism --- tragedy --- romanticism --- Emersonian perfectionism --- Emmanuel Levinas --- ethics and literature --- analogy --- empathy --- Israeli literature --- Israelis and Palestinians --- narrative ethics --- recognition --- responsibility --- decoloniality --- Kafka --- Timm --- racism --- genocide --- German Empire --- reading --- postcritical --- Afro-Caribbean literature --- African-American literature --- paracritical --- Glissant --- Seamus Heaney --- Jacques Derrida --- Seamus Heaney’s Human Rights Lecture --- po-ethics --- the other --- politics --- redress --- the individual --- Shakespeare --- Dante Alighieri --- Simon Critchley --- Czeslaw Miłosz --- Primo Levi --- alterity --- compassion --- enlarged thinking --- human rights --- judgment --- refugees --- sensus communis --- Teresa Brennan --- Hélène Cixous --- affect --- porosity --- vulnerability --- entre deux --- philosophy --- attention --- representation --- indigenous writers --- gendered violence --- Levinas --- Weil --- pedagogy --- metonymy --- metaphor --- neorealism --- contingency --- dialectics --- Heidegger --- Proust --- time --- literary form --- Being --- Alterity --- Anthropocene --- sonic rhetorics --- non-linguistic turn --- space --- prosody --- etymology --- Plato --- the Other --- orthography --- classical Greek --- Biblical Hebrew --- the reversible vov --- n/a --- Seamus Heaney's Human Rights Lecture --- Hélène Cixous