
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2018
Pages: 113-133
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319946993
Full citation:
, "The unstoried life", in: The realizations of the self, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018


The unstoried life
pp. 113-133
in: Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa, Richard Stone (eds), The realizations of the self, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Abstract
Should ethically serious people seek for unity in their lives, for harmony, for coherence? Is this a requirement on living a good life, a requirement on flourishing or eudaimonia? Should we aim for some kind of self-authorship or narrative self-constitution, as Marya Schechtman and Dan McAdams have suggested? Many think we should. This chapter argues for the opposite view, assembling and reflecting on a dossier of contrary quotations from many sources, including Proust, Montaigne, Alice Munro, Georges Perec, and Keats.
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Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2018
Pages: 113-133
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319946993
Full citation:
, "The unstoried life", in: The realizations of the self, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018