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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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Selfy Stories Podcast · UCL Minds · Reference to the self is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what is the self? Is it discovered or created? To what degree is it shaped by external forces and to what degree ...

You can prepare by listening to Selfy Stories, our brand new podcast about the self in contemporary literature and philosophy.

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Selfy Stories Podcast · UCL Minds · Reference to the self is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what is the self? Is it discovered or created? To what degree is it shaped by external forces and to what degree ...

Have a listen!
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Selfy Stories Podcast · UCL Minds · Reference to the self is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what is the self? Is it discovered or created? To what degree is it shaped by external forces and to what degree ...

Hoping to produce a corresponding episode of Selfy Stories soon!

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4. The Ethics of Attention: Iris Murdoch UCL Minds · Episode

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.

Have a listen 🎧👂🏻: open.spotify.com/episode/09W6...

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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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UCL Philosophy and Literature Reading Group - Summer Event Literature in the Age of the Self 16 June 2025, 3pm

Read all about it here: sites.google.com/view/uclphil...

(You can also read about Selfy Stories, our related podcast, here: sites.google.com/view/uclphil...)
 
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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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