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Zusatztext Peter Goldies final book is an important and insightful addition to the ever-growing literature on the nature of narrative and its role in our psychology Informationen zum Autor Peter Goldie was the Samuel Hall Chair in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. His main philosophical interests were the philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics, and particularly questions concerning value and how the mind engages with value. He is the author of The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (OUP, 2000), and On Personality (Routledge, 2004), co-author of Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art? (Routledge, 2010), editor of Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals (Ashgate, 2002), and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion (OUP, 2010), and co-editor of Philosophy and Conceptual Art (OUP, 2007), Empathy (OUP, 2011), and The Aesthetic Mind (OUP, 2011). Klappentext Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives--our past, present, and future--in narrative terms. He draws on work in philosophy, psychology, history, and literature, and argues that although there may not be such a thing as a narrative self, having a narrative sense of self is at the heart of what it is to understand ourselves. Zusammenfassung Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives--our past, present, and future--in narrative terms. He draws on work in philosophy, psychology, history, and literature, and argues that although there may not be such a thing as a narrative self, having a narrative sense of self is at the heart of what it is to understand ourselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements 1: Narrative thinking 2: Narrative thinking about one's past 3: Grief: A case study 4: Narrative thinking about one's future 5: Self-forgiveness: A case study 6: The narrative sense of self 7: Narrative, truth, life, and fiction Bibliography Index
