John J. Davenport

Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality

From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard

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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 s… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-136-45334-2
EAN: 9781136453342
Produktnummer: 14000841
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Plattform: PDF

Über den Autor

John Davenport is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He teaches and writes on ethics and moral psychology and agency (including free will and autonomy theory), existentialism, political philosophy (including rights and global governance), and philosophy of religion. With Anthony Rudd, he co-edited the 2001 collection, Kierkegaard After MacIntyre, and he has authored several other essays on Kierkegaard, including three recent articles on the structure of existential faith.