Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self / / John Lippitt, Patrick Stokes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Lippitt, John,; Stokes, Patrick,
• MitwirkendeR: Altshuler, Roman,; Behrendt, Kathy,; Dalsgaard, Matias Møl,; Davenport, John J.,; Helms, Eleanor,; Lippitt, John,; Pattison, George,; Rudd, Anthony,; Schechtman, Marya,; Sigrist, Michael J.,; Stokes, Patrick,; Strawser, Michael,; Wietzke, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Use insights from Kierkegaard to explore contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death'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 cata...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. The Moments of a Life: On Some Similarities between Life and Literature
• 2. Teleology, Narrative and Death
• 3. Kierkegaard's Platonic Teleology
• 4. Narrative Holism and the Moment
• 5. Kierkegaard's Erotic Reduction and the Problem of Founding the Self
• 6. Narrativity and Normativity
• 7. The End in the Beginning: Eschatology in Kierkegaard's Literary Criticism
• 8. Forgiveness and the Rat Man: Kierkegaard, 'Narrative Unity' and 'Wholeheartedness' Revisited
• 9. The Virtues of Ambivalence: Wholeheartedness as Existential Telos and the Unwillable Completion of Narravives
• 10. Non-Narrative Protestant Goods: Protestant Ethics and Kierkegaardian Selfhood
• 11. Narrativity, Aspect and Selfhood
• 12. The Senses of an Ending
• 13. The End? Kierkegaard's Death and its Implications for Telling his Story
• Bibliography
• Index