Anxieties of knowing

Michael A. Peters

pp. 147-162

in: A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Michael A. Peters (eds), Of other thoughts: non-traditional ways to the doctorate, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2013

Abstract

We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people – we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We"ve never tried to find out who we are – how could it happen that one day we"d discover ourselves? (Nietzsche, 1887)

Cited authors

Nietzsche Friedrich