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- Perhaps the most basic kind of narrative view, and the one that draws the strongest connection between narrative and self, holds that selves are inherently narrative entities. There are usually two elements of this claim. One is that our sense of self must be narrative, the other that the lives of selves are narrative in structure.
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Mar 11, 2022 · This essay develops a theory of identities, selves, and ‘the self’ that both explains the sense in which selves are narratively constituted and also explains how the self relates to a person's individual autobiographical identity and to their various social identities.
Feb 1, 2008 · In recent years, qualitative researchers have in varied ways conceptualized selves and identities as narratively constructed. In this article, we offer a typology for viewing, the various conceptualizations of narrative identities and selves. Five perspectives are presented for discussion.
- Brett Smith, Andrew C. Sparkes
- 2008
Mar 14, 2014 · No entity who is unable to think of herself as herself* in the first person can produce a first-personal narrative, a self-narrative. So, the narrative self-constitution view cannot be fundamental to one’s identity as a person.
- Lynne Rudder Baker
- lrbaker@philos.umass.edu
- 2016
This article examines the narrative approach to self found in philosophy and related disciplines. The strongest versions of the narrative approach hold that both a person's sense of self and a person's life are narrative in structure, and this is called the hermeneutical narrative theory.
May 10, 2014 · What does exist, is the narrative self. This self has no material extension in the world, but exists as a fiction, in the same way as fictive characters like Sherlock Holmes exist, or theoretical abstractions such as centers of narrative gravity (Dennett 1992, 103–104).
- Priscilla Brandon
- p.brandon@ftr.ru.nl
- 2016
On my view, then, we constitute ourselves as moral selves through operating with an autobiographical narrative. While this narrative is mostly implicit, we regularly articulate parts of it in our interactions with others in order to make ourselves intelligible to them.
Jun 28, 2012 · Our narrative sense of self is present to us not only when explicitly thinking of our past and future or when explicitly engaged in narrative thinking. It is also intricately involved in the way we engage with and think of our present environment and of ourselves and other people.
