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Enjoy the best moments of a terrific conversation about the experience and representation of selfhood in contemporary culture. 🎥🎞️
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Preschool’s out!
What better way to fill those long sunny summer days than to philosophize?
It’s never too early, or too late, to lead an examined life. #selfystories
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You can prepare by listening to Selfy Stories, our brand new podcast about the self in contemporary literature and philosophy.
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Have a listen!
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Hoping to produce a corresponding episode of Selfy Stories soon!
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We talk about how Cusk’s narrator attends to the world, and what this leads the reader to infer about her character and sense of self.
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What’s next on Selfy Stories?
Tune in to find out!
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Bernard Williams is famous for matching an analytic style with a humanist’s soul. His work, like Cusk’s, is marked by an interest in self-expression and authenticity.
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Bernard Williams’s chapter considers the differences between sincerity and authenticity as contending ideals of truthfulness about the self.
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In the autumn of 2024, we took Outline (2014), by Rachel Cusk, as our literary focus. We devoted the spring of 2025 to The Years (2008), by Annie Ernaux.
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