Abstract
In Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, the development of a unique kind of attention to how the self's edif.ication works in a secular setting can be investigated. This essay introduces the working-concept of auto-vigilance to describe this edif.ication's confessional character, its function for modern subjectivities as well as its transformation of ancient textual practice. The author argues that with Franklin at the latest, a new mode of addressing oneself in soliloquy necessarily supposes some kind of public, which in return re-structures various techniques of the self, such as (secular) asceticism, introspection and self-fashioning.
| Dokumententyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
|---|---|
| Fakultät: | Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 3 |
| Themengebiete: | 400 Sprache > 400 Sprache |
| ISSN: | 0044-3441 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
| Dokumenten ID: | 98350 |
| Datum der Veröffentlichung auf Open Access LMU: | 05. Jun. 2023, 15:28 |
| Letzte Änderungen: | 05. Jun. 2023, 15:28 |
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