Deleuze and Ricoeur disavowed affinities and the narrative self Declan Sheerin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheerin, Declan, author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Ricœur, Paul.

Self (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the self? Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche? Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics and soap operas - a multitude of forces culled from fashion, modern myth, culture and recreation? Or must we still convince ourselves, like Rousseau, that the self can never be tainted; that it is, above all else, irrefrangible? Paul Ricoeur proposed that the self is formed within the narratives we tell of ourselves, that it is itself a form of narrative. But is this enough? Could a self cohere in a multitude of potential narratives or find unity among its stories? In this book, Declan Sheerin challenges the theory that the self is narrative alone or that concordance reigns over discordance in the self. Drawing upon the works of Gilles Deleuze, he proposes that deep to the sense of a unified, represented self is a more fundamental self of difference, a self that is more than merely coherent narrative

Contents:

Why Deleuze and Ricoeur?

Fields for potential and possible connectors

Investigative strategies

Towards the cohesion of a life : chapter outline

Problematizing the field of the self

Between rigidification and dehiscence : context and counter-context

Ancestry for the self in a problematic field

Conceptual personae and the self

Aporia of the inscrutability of the self

Sweeney : philosophical bathyscope

Critique on the Kantian self

Pretensions of the Kantian self

Divided self still surrounded by the mad and the replicant

The narrative self

Oneself as another or Xnselves as myself

The narrative self : origins in Kant

Appearance and exposition of the narrative self

Working through narrative

Towards an interrogation of the narrative self

Questioning the narrative self through its progenitors

Methodology : questioning back

The narrative self in retrospect

The poetic composition of the self : threefold mimesis

Summary : problems for narrative identity

Transversals between Ricoeur and Deleuze

In the land of the larval selves

Origins in Schelling

Ontology of productivity

The dogmatic image of thought

The narrative self as twin multiplicities

Dis/solving the narrative self

From multiplicity to the narrative self

Obscure stammering for a new narrative self

Between time and the self : a fractured 'I'

Laws in the germplasm of narrative : the dark precursor

Narrative persona

From debt to excess

Ricoeur's dilemma of the self : substance or illusion?

Deleuze and Aristotle : a disavowed affinity

Interzone

Between dark precursor and narrative self : gelassenheit

Inhering problems for the becoming-narrative self

An unguessed axis for narrative selves

From excess to debt : evolving constraints to narrative identity

Where to start? : three stations : natality, personhood, narrative selfhood

First constraint : Proustian love and lack

Narrative constraints : implications for the synthesis of the heterogeneous

The poetic imagination within the evolving constraints of narrative productivity

Where Deleuze was, there Ricoeur shall be?

The narrative self : a badly posed question

Second constraint : imagination within structure and obligation

A self entombe d in a debt to the past

Preface

1. Introduction to an Enigma

2. Problematizing the Field of the Self

3. Critique on the Kantian Self

4. The Narrative Self

5. Questioning the Narrative Self through its Progenitors

6. Interlude

7. In the Land of the Larval Selves

8. Dis

solving the Narrative Self

9. From Debt to Excess

10. Interzone

11. From Excess to Debt: Evolving Constraints to Narrative Identity

12. The Poetic Imagination within the Evolving Constraints of Narrative Productivity

13. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9786613205261

9781472546265

1472546261

9781283205269

1283205262

9781441128317

144112831X

OCLC:

741687217