Cover -- Half Title -- Full Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- Three Traditions -- Four Philosophical Psychologies -- Self-Knowledge in Literature and Drama -- Zasetsky -- CHAPTER 2: APPROACHES TO THE SELF -- Judgment Day -- Personality Profiles -- Self-Concepts -- The Storied Self -- The Somatic Sense of Self -- The Self in Question -- CHAPTER 3: SELF-DETACHMENT AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- Transparency -- Reflective Detachment -- Alternative Self-Descriptions -- Freedom, Self-Awareness, and Moral Responsibility -- Detachment Revisited -- CHAPTER 4: A MYSTERY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT -- Identity and "Being in Question" -- The Fundamental Project -- The Radical Choice of Self -- Self-Knowledge and the Fundamental Project -- Autobiographical Blind Spots -- A "Founded Mode of Being" -- CHAPTER 5: "THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES": IRONY, CONTINGENCY, AND THE LIGHTNESS OF BEING -- The Self "Well Lost" -- Ironism and Self-Enlargement -- Authenticity and Self-Purification -- The Most Disenchanting of Sciences -- Playing with Identity -- The Lightness of Being in Time -- Radical Choice Revisited -- CHAPTER 6: DIALOGIC SELF-KNOWING -- Solitary Selves -- Like-Minded Communities -- Consensus and Intersubjective Validation -- Dialogic Encounter -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.