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Self, Value and Narrative : a Kierkegaardian Approach

Some material now in chapters 7 and 8 was first published in 2005 and 2007, but this material is integrated in these chapters with a substantial amount of material that has been written since 1 Jan 2008. The book’s overall thesis also puts the earlier material into a new and broader philosophical context. At least 90% of the book is completely new for this submission (approx. 133,000 words).

This output is the result of an extensive research effort. It develops an account of the self as essentially teleological, partially self-constituting, evaluative and narrative, and argues that none of these dimensions of selfhood can be fully understood without reference to all the others. To support this thesis involved the development of a complex argument, including consideration of the substantial literature relating to all these themes, as well as relating Kierkegaard (and the secondary literature on Kierkegaard) to the contemporary debates. In these ways, the first two conditions (Panel Criteria and Working Methods p. 86, para 64) are met.