Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lippitt, John; Stokes, Patrick

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Produktbeschreibung

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? These questions have been much discussed both in recent philosophy and by scholars grappling with the work of the enigmatic 19th-century thinker Soren Kierkegaard. For the first time, this collection brings together figures in both contemporary philosophy and Kierkegaard studies to explore pressing issues in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology. It serves both to advance important ongoing discussions of selfhood and to explore the light that, 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748694440
• Artikelnr.: 44754552

Autorenporträt

John Lippitt is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love (Cambridge, 2013), The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kierkegaard and Fear and Trembling (Routledge, 2003; 2nd edition pending) and Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought (Palgrave, 2000). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (Oxford, 2013). Patrick Stokes is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. He is co-editor of Kierkegaard and Death (Indiana University Press, 2011) and author of Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self and Moral Vision (Palgrave, 2010) Acknowledgements Abbreviations Contributors Introduction John Lippitt and Patrick Stokes 1. The Moments of a Life: On Some Similarities between Life and Literature Marya Schechtman 2. Teleology, Narrative and Death Roman Altshuler 3. Kierkegaard's Platonic Teleology Anthony Rudd 4. Narrative Holism and the Moment Patrick Stokes 5. Kierkegaard's Erotic Reduction and the Problem of Founding the Self Michael Strawser 6. Narrativity and Normativity Walter Wieizke 7. The End in the Beginning: Eschatology in Kierkegaard's Literary Criticism Eleanor Helms 8. Forgiveness and the Rat Man: Kierkegaard, 'Narrative Unity' and 'Wholeheartedness' Revisited John Lippitt 9. The Virtues of Ambivalence: Wholeheartedness as Existential Telos and the Unwillable Completion of Narravives John J. Davenport 10. Non-Narrative Protestant Goods: Protestant Ethics and Kierkegaardian Selfhood Matias Møl Dalsgaard 11. Narrativity, Aspect, and Selfhood Michael J. Sigrist 12. The Senses of an Ending Kathy Behrendt 13. The End? Kierkegaard's Death and its Implications for Telling his Story George Pattison Index