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Book SynopsisA tour de force of scholarship and major contribution to the history of thought concerning the nature of personal identity, Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self asks how identity is created and examines the history of conceptions of the self, from Aristotle to Postmodernism, to find the answers. Ultimately, Maan discovers that the human capacity for self-creation exists in what have previously been problematic areas of experienceconflict, marginalization, disruption, exclusion, subversion, deviation and contradiction.
Trade ReviewInternarrative Identity confronts us with deep questions about personal identity and about how we are to trace the significance of a person's life . . . urges us to rethink the range of ways available to us for making sense of who we are and how we ought to live. -- Mark Johnson, author of Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the Flesh
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Chapter I: Narrative Identity Chapter 6 Chapter II: Fault Lines Chapter 7 Chapter III: Comparative Analysis Chapter 8 Chapter IV: Internarrative Identity Chapter 9 Chapter V: Repression and Narrative Unity Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author
