Deleuze and Ricoeur : Disavowed Affinities and the Narrative Self

Declan Sheerin

ISBN 10: 1441124489 / ISBN 13: 9781441124487

Verlag: Continnuum-3PL, 2009

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781441124487

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Deleuze and Ricoeur : Disavowed Affinities and the Narrative Self
• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1441124489
• ISBN-13: 9781441124487
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 240B x 161 H x 19 T Millimeter Breite: 240 mm, Höhe: 161 mm, Tiefe: 19 mm
• Gewicht: 561 Gramm

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Scholarly studies consider Paul's views on leadership tend to fall into one of three camps: 1) the historical development view, which in large measure identifies developments in church practice with developments in Pauline and deutero-Pauline ecclesiology; 2) the synchronic, historical reconstruction, typically making use of Graeco-Roman, social context sources, or social-scientific modelling, focusing on a single congregation, and sometimes distinguishing between the situation to which Paul was responding and the pattern he sought to impose; and 3) the theological/hermeneutical analysis, identifying Paul's particular approach to power and authority, often independently of any detailed reconstruction of the situations to which Paul was responding. Andrew Clarke has explored in an earlier work, Serve the Community of the Church (Eerdmans, 2000), the distinctive, local and historical situations in the various Pauline communities and concluded that there is no evidence that they organised themselves according to a common set of governmental structures which clearly developed with the passage of time. Rather each community was influenced by its own localized, social and cultural context. The present project builds on this, and necessarily focuses on leadership style rather than church order. It seeks to recover from Paul's critical responses, his generic ethos of church leadership, including the ideal qualities, characteristics and task of leaders and the nature of appropriate interaction and engagement with church members. In the light of current, theoretical discussions about power and gender, the study focuses particularly on Paul's attitude towards hierarchy, egalitarianism, authority, responsibility and privilege.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Declan Sheerin