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| Named Person: | D C Dennett; Paul Ricœur; Daniel Clement Dennett; Paul Ricoeur |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joan McCarthy |
| ISBN: | 9781591025481 1591025486 |
| OCLC Number: | 86172891 |
| Description: | 298 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Why the narrative self? -- Contemporary interest in narrative theory -- Is the self real or illusory? -- Dennett's brand of naturalism -- The heterophenomenological method (HM) -- Consciousness and the self -- The naturalist narrative self -- Puzzle cases -- The HM and the narrative self -- The limitations of Dennett's account -- The limits of language -- Epistemological fragility -- Ontological fragility -- Naturalism and phenomenology -- Confronting naturalism -- Phenomenology and hermeneutics -- The detour of interpretation -- Reflexivity -- The problem of personal identity -- The number of selves, identity relations and truth -- The capable self and its narrative identity -- Narrative identity and aristotelian muthos -- Narrative recounting of human lives -- LPSE-identity and literary puzzle cases -- Certainty, knowledge and attestation -- Narrative attestation -- Fact and fiction -- Narrative attestation -- The limitations of Ricoeur's account -- Selective appeals to literary and psychoanalytic discourses -- Focus on the self-examining self -- The ontological status of the narrative self -- The epistemological status of the narrative self -- The practical self -- Why the narrative self? |
| Series Title: | Contemporary studies in philosophy and the human sciences. |
| Responsibility: | Joan McCarthy. |
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"With this careful and critical exposition of two narrative theories of selfhood, Joan McCarthy advances our understanding not only of how selves are best understood, but why it matters that we get this right. Her book is an invaluable addition to the literature on narrative approaches to ethics." <br><br>--Hilde Lindemann (Nelson)<br>Author of Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair and<br>Editor of Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics<br><br>"What a gift--Joan McCarthy offers a wonderfully lucid, readable commentary and critique of two of the most indispensable but difficult narrative philosophers. McCarthy summarizes a broad range of texts by Dennett and Ricoeur, showing which arguments matter and how, and always keeping the story moving. Her book is a welcome contribution to scholars in all disciplines concerned with narrative."<br><br>--Arthur W. Frank, author of <br>The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and<br>The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live Read more...
