Narrative, identity and the Kierkegaardian self / [electronic resource]
Lippitt, John, author.
Lippitt, John,editor.
Stokes, Patrick,1978-editor.
Is each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves, or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided and possibly harmful? Are selves and persons the same thing? And what does the possibility of sudden death mean for our ability to understand the narrative of ourselves?For the first time, this collection brings together figures in contemporary philosophy and Kierkegaard studies to explore pressing questions like these in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology. These essays will both advance important ongoing discussions of selfhood and expand the light that, 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).
The moments of a life : on some similarities between life and literature / Marya Schechtman -- Teleology, narrative and death / Roman Altshuler -- Kierkegaard's Platonic teleology / Anthony Rudd -- Narrative holism and the moment / Patrick Stokes -- Kierkegaard's erotic reduction and the problem of founding the self / Michael Strawser -- Narrativity and normativity / Walter Wietzke -- The end in the beginning : eschatology in Kierkegaard's literary criticism / Eleanor Helms -- Forgiveness and the rat man : Kierkegaard, 'narrative unity' and 'wholeheartedness' revisited / John Lippitt -- The virtues of ambivalence : wholeheartedness as existential telos and the unwillable completion of narrative / John J. Davenport -- Non-narrative Protestan goods ; Protestan ethics and Kierkegaardian selfhood / Matias M�l Dalsgaard -- Narrativity, aspect and selfhood / Michael J. Sigrist -- The senses of an ending / Kathy Behrendt -- The end? Kierkegaard's death and its implications for telling his story / George Pattison.
Is each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves, or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided and possibly harmful? Are selves and persons the same thing? And what does the possibility of sudden death mean for our ability to understand the narrative of ourselves?For the first time, this collection brings together figures in contemporary philosophy and Kierkegaard studies to explore pressing questions like these in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology. These essays will both advance important ongoing discussions of selfhood and expand the light that, 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems.
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
Self.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Self-knowledge, Theory of.
Individuality.