Narrative Identity and Moral Identity

TRAMA

This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics, working across continental and analytical traditions. Kim Atkins explains and justifies the basis of the practical approach through an explication of the structures of human embodiment and an account of how those structures necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding and ethics. She highlights how recent work on agency and autonomy implicitly draws upon conceptions of embodiment and intersubjectivity that underpin the narrative view.

SOMMARIO

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

AUTORE

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).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415956321
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 0.85 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 1 line drawing
• Pagine Arabe: 176
• Pagine Romane: viii