Deleuze and Ricoeur
Subtitle: disavowed affinities and the narrative self
By: Declan Sheerin.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781441124487
Subjects: Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995; Ricœur, Paul; Self (Philosophy)
Description: What is the self? Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche? Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics and soap operas - a multitude of forces culled from fashion, modern myth, culture and recreation? Or must we still convince ourselves, like Rousseau, that the self can never be tainted; that it is, above all else, irrefrangible? Paul Ricoeur proposed that the self is formed within the narratives we tell of ourselves, that it is itself a form of narrative. But is this enough? Could a self cohere in a multitude of potential narratives or find unity among its stories? In this book, Declan Sheerin challenges the theory that the self is narrative alone or that concordance reigns over discordance in the self. Drawing upon the works of Gilles Deleuze, he proposes that deep to the sense of a unified, represented self is a more fundamental self of difference, a self that is more than merely coherent narrative
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why Deleuze and Ricoeur?; title: Fields for potential and possible connectors; title: Investigative strategies; title: Towards the cohesion of a life : chapter outline; title: Problematizing the field of the self; title: Between rigidification and dehiscence : context and counter-context; title: Ancestry for the self in a problematic field; title: Conceptual personae and the self; title: Aporia of the inscrutability of the self; title: Sweeney : philosophical bathyscope; title: Critique on the kantian self; title: Pretensions of the kantian self; title: Divided self still surrounded by the mad and the replicant; title: The narrative self; title: Oneself as another or onselves as myself; title: The narrative self : origins in Kant; title: Appearance and exposition of the narrative self; title: Working through narrative; title: Towards an interrogation of the narrative self; title: Questioning the narrative self through its progenitors; title: Methodology : questioning back; title: The narrative self in retrospect; title: The poetic composition of the self : threefold mimesis; title: Summary : problems for narrative identity; title: Transversals between Ricoeur and Deleuze; title: In the land of the larval selves; title: Origins in Schelling; title: Ontology of productivity; title: The dogmatic image of thought; title: The narrative self as twin multiplicities; title: Dissolving the narrative self; title: From multiplicity to the narrative self; title: Obscure stammering for a new narrative self; title: Between time and the self : a fractured I; title: Laws in the germplasm of narrative : the dark precursor; title: Narrative persona; title: From debt to excess; title: Ricoeur's dilemma of the self : substance or illusion?; title: Deleuze and Aristotle : a disavowed affinity; title: Interzone; title: Between dark precursor and narrative self : gelassenheit; title: Inhering problems for the becoming-narrative self; title: An unguessed axis for narrative selves; title: From excess to debt : evolving constraints to narrative identity; title: Where to start, three stations : natality, personhood, narrative selfhood; title: First constraint : proustian love and lack; title: Narrative constraints : implications for the synthesis of the heterogeneous; title: The poetic imagination within the evolving constraints of  narrative productivity; title: Where Deleuze was, there Ricoeur shall be?; title: The narrative self : a badly posed question; title: Second constraint : imagination within structure and obligation; title: A self entombed in a debt to the past.