Author: Emma Simone<br />File Type: pdf<br />div id=description_1 margin padding orphans 2 text-align left text-indent widows 2h4 margin 1 padding Explores Woolfs treatment of the relationship between self and world from an existential-phenomenological perspectiveh4p margin padding Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolfs textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolfs novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individuals connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context.div id=description_2 margin 1em padding orphans 2 text-align left text-indent widows 2p margin 1em padding Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other the understanding that the individual is a temporal being an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individuals relationship to and with the world.h4 margin 1 padding Key Featuresh4ul margin 1 padding list-style discli margin 25px padding The first sustained discussion of Woolf from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heideggerlli margin 25px padding Emphasises the thematic and conceptual links between the works of Woolf and Heidegger, so that each chapter focuses upon the explication of particular issues and aspects of Being-in-the-worldlli margin 25px padding Covers a wide range of Woolfs fictional and non-fictional writinglul