Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0748694439 ISBN 13: 9780748694433

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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

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 Søren 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John Lippitt is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author ofKierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love (Cambridge, 2013), The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kierkegaardand Fear and Trembling (Routledge, 2003; 2nd edition pending) andHumour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought (Palgrave, 2000). He is co-editor ofThe 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 ofKierkegaard and Death (Indiana University Press, 2011) and author of Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self and Moral Vision (Palgrave, 2010)

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0748694439
• ISBN 13: 9780748694433
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 234
• Redattore: Lippitt John, Stokes Patrick