Narrative, Philosophy and Life. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Allen Speight, editor.
• Editors: Speight, Allen
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Philosophy, Narrative and Life; 1.2 Scope and Aims of the Volume; References; Part I: Narrative, Philosophy and Life: Theoretical Questions About Narrative; Chapter 2: Against Narrativity; 2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 2.4; 2.5; 2.6; 2.7; 2.8; 2.9; 2.10; References; Chapter 3: "The Size of the Self": Minimalist Selves and Narrative Self-Constitution; 3.1 Locke on Person and Self; 3.2 The Narrative Self and the Minimal Self; 3.3 Self-Awareness, Self-Concern, and Time-Relative Interests; 3.4 A Kind of Compromise. 3.5 Conclusions and ConcernsReferences; Chapter 4: The Narrative Shape of Agency: Three Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives; 4.1 Agency and Minimal Narrative: Strawson's Challenge; 4.2 Narrative Thinking and the Role of Irony: Goldie; 4.3 Improvisation and Narrative Practical Reasoning: Velleman; 4.4 Assessing Narrative Agency: Questions for Further Philosophical Engagement; References; Chapter 5: A Story of No Self: Literary and Philosophical Observations on Aśvaghoṣa's Life of the Buddha; Sources. Chapter 6: How Sartre, Philosopher, Misreads Sartre, Novelist: Nausea and the Adventures of the Narrative Self6.1 MacIntyre and Strawson on Sartre/Roquentin; 6.2 Simmel and Sartre on Adventures; 6.3 A More Holistic Reading of Nausea; 6.4 Reframing the Narrative Self; 6.5 Against Didacticism; References; Chapter 7: Aristotle on Narrative Intelligence; References; Chapter 8: Dostoevsky and the Literature of Process: What Open Time Looks Like; 8.1 Closists and Openists; 8.2 Sufficient Rhyme and Reason; 8.3 The God of Pope and Leibniz; 8.4 Subtracting the Agent; 8.5 Social Physics. 8.6 Appendicitis8.7 The Openist View; 8.8 Remember the Hungarians!; 8.9 Narrativeness; 8.10 Intention; 8.11 Representing Process; References; Chapter 9: Narrative and the Literary Imagination; 9.1; 9.2; 9.3; 9.4; References; Chapter 10: "And We Shall Compose a Poem to Establish These Truths": The Power of Narrative Art in South Asian Literary Cultures; References; Part II: Philosophy, Narrative and Life Writing: Philosophical Biography and Biographical Philosophy; Chapter 11: Descartes' Biography as a Guide to His Meditations; 11.1 Descartes and Natural Philosophy; 11.2 The Meditations.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht [Netherlands] : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 401.41; Discourse analysis, Narrative; Philosophy; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General; Discourse analysis, Narrative; Philosophy; Philosophy; Aesthetics; Religious Studies, general; History, general; History of Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401793490; 9401793492
• Related ISBNs: 9789401793483; 9401793484
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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