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.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Languages and Literatures > Department 3 |
| Subjects: | 400 Language > 400 Language |
| ISSN: | 0044-3441 |
| Language: | German |
| Item ID: | 98350 |
| Date Deposited: | 05. Jun 2023 15:28 |
| Last Modified: | 05. Jun 2023 15:28 |
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