My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0874216311 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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The honesty here is valuable in itself as people, Mormon or not, recognize their own conflicts that constitute the process of trying to live a better life, an effort we all tend to bungle. So as an autobiography, this is important. Here the life and the form of its telling are integral—the book enacts the very divisions Wayne Booth is talking about, and what he is talking about has shaped the work he has done that has resonated with so many over the years. As a study in ethics and rhetoric it is important. As an experience of reading it is important—it comes together for the reader at the end in ways that tell the story of any honest life.Gregory Clark, editor, Rhetoric Society Quarterly
For Booth, even the autobiographical process becomes part of a quest to harmonize the diverse, often conflicting aspects of who he was. The book becomes a window through which we who read it will see our own conflicts, our own ongoing struggle to live honestly and ethically in the world.Wayne Booth died in October 2005, soon after completing work on this autobiography.. In his autobiography, My Many Selves, Wayne C. Basic to his story and to its lifelong concern with ethics and rhetoric was his Mormon youth in rural Utah. Booth is less concerned with his professional achievements---though the book by no means ignores his distinguished career---than with the personal vision that emerges from a long life lived thoughtfully. To see himself clearly and whole
Descended from Mormon pioneers, he began as a young man to wrestle with church teachings, a struggle that informed both his decision to root himself in the secular world and his particular interest in the field of rhetoric. He later considered rhetoric in a number of forms beyond the narrative, from political discourse to televisio