Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self - Hardcover

Lippitt John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748694439 ISBN 13: 9780748694433

Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2015

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Uses insights from Kierkegaard to explore contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death

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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; second 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 he is the author of Kierkegaard’s Mirrors: Interest, Self and Moral Vision (Palgrave, 2010)

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
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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

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‘Are our lives enacted dramatic narratives? Did Kierkegaard understand human existence in these terms? Anyone grappling with these two questions will find in these excellent essays a remarkable catalogue of insights and arguments to be reckoned with in giving an answer. That is no small achievement.’Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre DameExplores contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death drawing on insights from KierkegaardAre selves stories? Is each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves? Are selves and persons the same thing, or is each of us somehow both these things? What implications does the possibility of sudden death have for our ability to understand ourselves in narrative terms? Or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided, and possibly harmful?These questions have been much discussed in recent philosophy, including by scholars grappling with the work of the enigmatic Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55). This collection brings together, for the first time between the covers of one book, leading figures from both the debate on Kierkegaard and narrative, and the wider discussion of philosophy and narrative identity, to explore pressing issues in selfhood and moral psychology. It advances important ongoing discussions and explores the light that, over 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems.John Lippitt is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University.Patrick Stokes is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University and a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire.Cover image: Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, 1901 by Vilhelm Hammershøi. Image courtesy of Statens Museum for KunstCover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748694439
• ISBN 13: 9780748694433
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Lippittpatrick John, Stokes Patrick
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