Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective

by Kim Atkins

Overview

This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics—approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding, and ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415887892
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/03/2010
Series:	Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kim Atkins is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong in Australia. She has a special interest in the work of Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, concerning issues of embodiment, selfhood and ethics. She is the editor of Self and Subjectivity. A Reader with Commentary (Blackwell) and co-editor, with Catriona Mackenzie, of Practical Identity and Narrative Agency (Routledge).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Narrative Identity and Moral Identity

Chapter 1: Locke, Hume and Kant on Selfhood

Chapter 2: The Ambiguity of Embodiment: First- and Third-personal Perspectives

Chapter 3: Intersubjectivity and the Second-personal Perspective

Chapter 4: The Embodied Self and Narrative Identity

Chapter 5: Narrative Identity and the Ethical Perspective

Chapter 6: Practical Wisdom and Moral Exceptionality

Chapter 7: Autonomy Competency and Narrative Competency

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Atkins' book is ambitious and wide-ranging, and contains much of interest not only to narrative theorists but also to anyone interested in theories of agency and moral psychology more generally." — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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