{"product_id":"the-mess-inside-peter-goldie-9780198707660","title":"The Mess Inside: Narrative, Emotion, and the Mind","description":"Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives--our past, present, and future--in narrative terms. The notion of narrative is highly topical, and highly contentious, in a wide range of fields including philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis, historical studies, and literature. \u003cem\u003eThe Mess Inside\u003c\/em\u003e engages with all of these areas of discourse, and steers a path between the sceptics who are dismissive of the idea of narrative as having any worthwhile use at all, and those who argue that our very selfhood is somehow constituted by a narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter introducing the notion of narrative, Goldie discusses the way we engage with the past in narrative terms. This involves an exploration of the essentially perspectival nature of narrative thinking, which gains support from much recent empirical work on memory. Drawing on literary examples and on work in psychology, Goldie considers grief as a case study of this kind of narrative thinking, extending to a discussion of the crucial notion of \"closure.\" Turning to narrative thinking about our future, Goldie discusses the many structural parallels between our imaginings of the future and our memories of the past, and the role of our emotions in response to what we imagine in thinking about our future in the light of our past. This is followed by a second case study--an exploration of self-forgiveness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this ground-breaking book, Goldie supports scepticism about the idea that there is such a thing as a \u003cem\u003enarrative self\u003c\/em\u003e, but argues that having a narrative \u003cem\u003esense of\u003c\/em\u003e self, quite distinct from any metaphysical notion of selfhood, is at the heart of what it is to think of ourselves, and others, as having a narratable past, present, and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Goldie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198707665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198707660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Peter Goldie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761014206719,"sku":"9780198707660","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9fd2a4a2-2b51-4f28-ae1b-8d63950cc8a6.jpg?v=1706680129","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mess-inside-peter-goldie-9780198707660","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}