Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality

In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of identity has grown exponentially, though there is little agreement about what a "life-narrative" might be. In connecting Kierkegaard with virtue ethics, several scholars have recently argued that narrative models of selves and MacIntyre''s concept of the unity of a life help make sense of Kierkegaard''s existential stages and, in partic...