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

by John J. Davenport

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138910864
• ISBN13: 9781138910867
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"