Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Moments of a Life: On Some Similarities between Life and Literature
- 2 Teleology, Narrative and Death
- 3 Kierkegaard's Platonic Teleology
- 4 Narrative Holism and the Moment
- 5 Kierkegaard's Erotic Reduction and the Problem of Founding the Self
- 6 Narrativity and Normativity
- 7 The End in the Beginning: Eschatology in Kierkegaard's Literary Criticism
- 8 Forgiveness and the Rat Man: Kierkegaard, ‘Narrative Unity’ and ‘Wholeheartedness’ Revisited
- 9 The Virtues of Ambivalence: Wholeheartedness as Existential Telos and the Unwillable Completion of Narravives
- 10 Non-Narrative Protestant Goods: Protestant Ethics and Kierkegaardian Selfhood
- 11 Narrativity, Aspect and Selfhood
- 12 The Senses of an Ending
- 13 The End? Kierkegaard's Death and its Implications for Telling his Story
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Moments of a Life: On Some Similarities between Life and Literature
- 2 Teleology, Narrative and Death
- 3 Kierkegaard's Platonic Teleology
- 4 Narrative Holism and the Moment
- 5 Kierkegaard's Erotic Reduction and the Problem of Founding the Self
- 6 Narrativity and Normativity
- 7 The End in the Beginning: Eschatology in Kierkegaard's Literary Criticism
- 8 Forgiveness and the Rat Man: Kierkegaard, ‘Narrative Unity’ and ‘Wholeheartedness’ Revisited
- 9 The Virtues of Ambivalence: Wholeheartedness as Existential Telos and the Unwillable Completion of Narravives
- 10 Non-Narrative Protestant Goods: Protestant Ethics and Kierkegaardian Selfhood
- 11 Narrativity, Aspect and Selfhood
- 12 The Senses of an Ending
- 13 The End? Kierkegaard's Death and its Implications for Telling his Story
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2015