Use insights from Kierkegaard to explore contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death'Are our lives enacted dramatic narratives? Did Kierkegaard understand human existence in these terms? Anyone grappling with these two questions will find in these excellent essays a remarkable catalogue of insights and arguments to be reckoned with in giving an answer. That is no small achievement.'Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre DameRead all reviewsIs each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves, or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided and possibly harmful? Are selves and persons the same thing? And what does the possibility of sudden death mean for our ability to understand the narrative of ourselves?These questions have been much discussed both in recent philosophy and by scholars grappling with the work of the enigmatic 19th-century thinker S ren Kierkegaard. For the first time, this collection brings together figures in both contemporary philosophy and Kierkegaard studies to explore pressing issues in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology. It serves both to advance important ongoing discussions of selfhood and to explore the light that, 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems.Brings together leading figures in a central philosophical debate of ongoing significance: personal identityEngages with a range of questions of vital importance for the debate about narrative selfhoodDemonstrates Kierkegaard s capacity to generate new and illuminating insights for contemporary discussions across a range of traditionsThe ContributorsRoman Altshuler, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of the PacificKathy Behrendt, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityMatias M l Dalsgaard, PhD, University of Aarhus and CEO of GoMoreJohn J. Davenport, Professor of Philosophy, Fordham UniversityEleanor Helms, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California Polytechnic State University San Luis ObispoJohn Lippitt, Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Hertfordshire and Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Deakin UniversityGeorge Pattison, 1640 Chair of Divinity, University of Glasgow Anthony Rudd, Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, St Olaf College and Research Fellow, University of HertfordshireMichael J. Sigrist, Professorial Lecturer in Philosophy, George Washington UniversityMarya Schechtman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, ChicagoPatrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University and Research Fellow, University of HertfordshireMichael Strawser, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Central FloridaWalter Wietzke, Instructor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, River FallsFind out more about the authorsVisit John Lippitt's Academia.edu profileVisit Patrick Stokes' website

Use insights from Kierkegaard to explore contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death'Are our lives enacted dramatic narratives? Did Kierkegaard understand human existence in these terms? Anyone grappling with these two questions will find in these excellent essays a remarkable catalogue of insights and arguments to be reckoned with in giving an answer. That is no small achievement.'Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre DameRead all reviewsIs each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves, or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided and possibly harmful? Are selves and persons the same thing? And what does the possibility of sudden death mean for our ability to understand the narrative of ourselves?These questions have been much discussed both in recent philosophy and by scholars grappling with the work of the enigmatic 19th-century thinker S ren Kierkegaard. For the first time, this collection brings together figures in both contemporary philosophy and Kierkegaard studies to explore pressing issues in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology. It serves both to advance important ongoing discussions of selfhood and to explore the light that, 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems.Brings together leading figures in a central philosophical debate of ongoing significance: personal identityEngages with a range of questions of vital importance for the debate about narrative selfhoodDemonstrates Kierkegaard s capacity to generate new and illuminating insights for contemporary discussions across a range of traditionsThe ContributorsRoman Altshuler, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of the PacificKathy Behrendt, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityMatias M l Dalsgaard, PhD, University of Aarhus and CEO of GoMoreJohn J. Davenport, Professor of Philosophy, Fordham UniversityEleanor Helms, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California Polytechnic State University San Luis ObispoJohn Lippitt, Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Hertfordshire and Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Deakin UniversityGeorge Pattison, 1640 Chair of Divinity, University of Glasgow Anthony Rudd, Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, St Olaf College and Research Fellow, University of HertfordshireMichael J. Sigrist, Professorial Lecturer in Philosophy, George Washington UniversityMarya Schechtman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, ChicagoPatrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University and Research Fellow, University of HertfordshireMichael Strawser, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Central FloridaWalter Wietzke, Instructor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, River FallsFind out more about the authorsVisit John Lippitt's Academia.edu profileVisit Patrick Stokes' website