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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi The Naked Self OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi The Naked Self Kierkegaard and Personal Identity Patrick Stokes 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©PatrickStokes2015 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2015 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015934955 ISBN 978–0–19–873273–0 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi For Ruby and Lily, who both came along while I was writing this. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi Contents Acknowledgements xi AbbreviationsforKierkegaard’sWorks xiii ListofPseudonyms xvii Introduction:KierkegaardandtheHistoryoftheSelf 1 TheSelfinContemporaryPhilosophy:ABleakPicture 1 MetaphysicalvsPracticalIdentity 6 SoteriologicalOrigins 8 KierkegaardontheSelf 12 KierkegaardandContemporaryPhilosophy 16 Outline 21 1. RecollectionandMemory 25 LockeandBecoming‘SelftoOneself’ 25 Locke’sThreeFormsofIdentity 25 TheMemoryCriterion 28 Metaphysics,Concern,andTheologicalPragmatism 32 MemoryvsRecollectioninKierkegaard 36 RecollectionandSoteriology 42 2. Contemporaneity 46 ContemporaneityandMemory 46 ContemporaneityandVision 48 ContemporaneityasReligiousExperience? 52 ImaginativeDistance 54 TheMissingElement 59 Verisimilitude? 61 TheSelf-reflexiveImagination 63 TheDe-historicizationObjection 65 ContemporaneityandSoteriologicalIdentity 66 Coda:TheImpossibilityofContemporaneity 67 3. PerspectivalSubjectivity 69 APuzzleaboutMemory 69 MemoryandVisualization 70 Non-stipulationandUnselfconsciousMemory 75 ContemporaneityandtheNotionalandActualSubject 78 ObserverMemoriesandFalseMemories 82 AnticipatoryImagination 85 FissionCases 88 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi viii CONTENTS 4. Diachronicity,Episodicity,Synchronicity 93 TheSelfacrossTime 93 EpisodicSelf-experience 96 TheReductiveAccountofDiachronicity 98 KierkegaardianContemporaneityasDiachronicSelf-experience 101 ContemporaneityandEpisodicEthics 106 FearingtheFuture,FearingDeath 112 Diachronicity:FromDescriptivetoNormative 115 5. Self-alienation 117 ‘ThePastIsAnotherCountry;TheyDoThingsdifferentlythere’ 118 TheNineteenth-centuryRussian 121 Schechtman’sMatrons 124 SoteriologyandTransmissionLoss 129 Memory,Guilt,andTotality 133 Subjectivity,Interest,andMortality 135 6. ContinuityandTemporality 141 TheNeo-LockeanProject 141 Anti-Climacus’OntologyofSelfhood 143 Continuity 147 TheLossofSelfhood 150 ThePresent-tenseCharacteroftheSelf 154 SelfandEternality 159 MetaphysicsfromtheInside 163 7. PracticalandNarrativeIdentity 166 TheRiseofNarrative 166 FromMetaphysicaltoNarrativeSelfhood 168 ThePracticalKierkegaard 170 TheNarrativeApproach 172 TheNarrativeKierkegaard 175 MinimalvsNarrativeSelves 180 Kierkegaard’sNakedSelf 182 TheFour-dimensionalProblem 186 8. SurvivalandEschatology 192 IdentityandtheSurvivalProblem 192 DeathandtheDividedSelf 196 NakedSelfandEternity 199 EternityasJudgement 202 PurityofHeart:NarrativeandEternity 205 TheEleventhHour 209 ImplicationsforNarrativeSelfhood 213 9. ObjectionsandFutureDirections 218 SummingUp 218 ChangingtheSubject 220 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/8/2015,SPi CONTENTS ix SettingBoundaries 222 HowFarCanNon-theistsGowithKierkegaard? 226 Conclusion:WhereNext? 229 Bibliography 233 Index 249
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