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Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality - From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard (Paperback)
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Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality - From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of
identity has grown exponentially, though there is little agreement
about what a "life-narrative" might be. In connecting Kierkegaard
with virtue ethics, several scholars have recently argued that
narrative models of selves and MacIntyre's concept of the unity of
a life help make sense of Kierkegaard's existential stages and, in
particular, explain the transition from "aesthetic" to "ethical"
modes of life. But others have recently raised difficult questions
both for these readings of Kierkegaard and for narrative accounts
of identity that draw on the work of MacIntyre in general. While
some of these objections concern a strong kind of unity or
"wholeheartedness" among an agent's long-term goals or cares, the
fundamental objection raised by critics is that personal identity
cannot be a narrative, since stories are artifacts made by persons.
In this book, Davenport defends the narrative approach to practical
identity and autonomy in general, and to Kierkegaard's stages in
particular.
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