Georg Misch's A History of Autobiography and the problem of self-esteem

In: Human affairs: HA ; postdisciplinary humanities & social sciences quarterly, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 343-352

Abstract

Abstract
The paper focuses on the rediscovery of Misch's A History of Autobiography and its relevance to the problem of self-knowledge and self-esteem. Misch's work is used to reconstruct a new aspect of self-esteem and to demonstrate that self-esteem can be interpreted as an early historical form of self-knowledge. In particular, self-esteem is characterized as a kind of self-knowledge in the category of the Other, that is, self-esteem appears to be self-knowledge derived from the social perspective regarding the individual.