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Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality: From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard

Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality: From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard

Davenport, John J.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Book 36

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0415894131
ISBN13: 9780415894135
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 26 2012
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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