Katrina Mitcheson's Outputs (16)

The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores how Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity responds to the problem of identifying a self through change by developing a dynamic concept of the self which is always open to transformation. Ricoeur aims to provide a descript... Read More about The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self.

Pregnancy as a metaphor of self-cultivation in Dawn (2023)
Journal Article

Nietzsche employs the concept of pregnancy metaphorically at various points in his writings; discussing the pregnancy of philosophers (GM III 8, BGE 292), spiritual pregnancy (EH, Clever 3; GS 72) and being pregnant with thoughts or deeds (D 552). I... Read More about Pregnancy as a metaphor of self-cultivation in Dawn.

Visual Art and Self-Construction (2021)
Book

Critically examining Ricoeur’s narrative account of self-construction, this book makes the case that the narrative model overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. Visual... Read More about Visual Art and Self-Construction.

Ecce Homo as Nietzsche's Honest Lie (2021)
Book Chapter

Once we recognize that for Nietzsche a new practice of truth aims to overcome ‘Truth’ as the ‘real world’, we can reconcile Nietzsche’s criticisms of ‘Truth’ with his praise of truth. If we are also to reconcile the importance of truthfulness, which... Read More about Ecce Homo as Nietzsche's Honest Lie.

Werner Herzog's ecstatic truth (2020)
Journal Article

In his stimulating discussion of Werner Herzog's work, Richard Eldridge emphasizes that Herzog's films are truth-disclosing. At the same time Eldridge acknowledges that Herzog makes clear the presence of the filmmaker and the process of filmmaking. I... Read More about Werner Herzog's ecstatic truth.

On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being (2019)
Book Chapter

Luce Irigaray’s recent book To Be Born: Genesis of New a Human Being can be seen as a response to Friedrich Nietzsche’s well-known call for us to overcome humanity in its current form. Irigaray shares with Nietzsche the belief that to overcome the di... Read More about On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being.

Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery (2018)
Book Chapter

In Michel Foucault’s late work he turns to ancient practices of the self, including stoicism, to explore whether such ‘technologies of the self’ can be taken up by the contemporary subject to cultivate a non-subjugated self. For Foucault, technologie... Read More about Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery.

Scepticism and self-transformation in Nietzsche–on the uses and disadvantages of a comparison to Pyrrhonian scepticism (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 BSHP. Scepticism is central to Nietzsche’s philosophical project, both as a tool of criticism and, through its role in self-transformation, as a tool for responding to criticism. While its importance in his thought and its complexity have been... Read More about Scepticism and self-transformation in Nietzsche–on the uses and disadvantages of a comparison to Pyrrhonian scepticism.

Techniques of self-knowledge in Nietzsche and Freud (2015)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2015 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Both Nietzsche and Freud believe that our conscious experiences and actions are shaped by the activity of unconscious drives. Despite the significant differences in their unders... Read More about Techniques of self-knowledge in Nietzsche and Freud.

The experiment of incorporating unbounded truth (2015)
Book Chapter

This essay addresses two central and contested themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy: the incorporation of truth and the free spirit. I argue that it is the free spirit who takes up the challenge of incorporating truth and that to understand this figure w... Read More about The experiment of incorporating unbounded truth.

Louise Bourgeois’ technologies of the self (2015)
Journal Article

In this article, I demonstrate how Louise Bourgeois used her artworks not only to better understand herself but also to cultivate a self capable of taking control of and reshaping the material of her past. Exploring her artworks in the context of Mic... Read More about Louise Bourgeois’ technologies of the self.

Nietzsche, truth and transformation (2013)
Book

Nietzsche scholarship has fallen into the trap of taking seriously either the epistemological or the existential import of Nietzsche's views on truth at the neglect of the other, obscuring a full understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy, and the poten... Read More about Nietzsche, truth and transformation.

Truth, autobiography and documentary: Perspectivism in Nietzsche and Herzog (2013)
Journal Article

Translating man back into nature: Nietzsche’s method (2013)
Journal Article

Foucault’s technologies of the self: Between control and creativity (2012)
Journal Article

Allowing the accidental: The interplay between intentionality and realism in photographic art (2010)
Journal Article

We experience photographs both as intentional and as prone to the accidental. The photograph is both capable of being an artwork with its own, constructed world and of drawing our attention to the reality of the objects used in creating it. In this a... Read More about Allowing the accidental: The interplay between intentionality and realism in photographic art.