Deleuze and Ricoeur : disavowed affinities and the narrative self / Declan Sheerin.
| Author/creator | Sheerin, Declan |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009. |
| Description | xix, 240 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Continuum studies in Continental philosophy Continuum studies in continental philosophy. ^A608259 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008056033 |
| ISBN | 9781441124487 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1441124489 (hbk. : alk. paper) |