This notable collection provides an interdisciplinary platform for
prominent thinkers who have all made significant recent contributions to
exploring the nexus of philosophy and narrative. It includes the latest
assessments of several key positions in the current philosophical
debate. These perspectives underpin a range of thematic strands
exploring the influence of narrative on notions of selfhood, identity,
temporal experience, and the emotions, among others. Drawing from the
humanities, literature, history and religious studies, as well as
philosophy, the volume opens with papers on narrative intelligence and
the relationship between narrative and agency. It features special
sections of in-depth commentary on a range of topics. How, for example,
do narrative and philosophical biography interact? Do celebrated
biographical and autobiographical accounts of the lives of philosophers
contribute to our understanding of their work? This new volume has a
substantive remit that incorporates the intercultural religious view of
philosophy's links to narrative together with its many secular aspects.
A valuable new resource for more advanced scholars in all its
constituent disciplines, it represents a significant addition to the
literature of this richly productive area of research.