INDEX

Action, 20, 40, 103; as valorized, 54

Alter ego, 34, 80

Amnesia, 7, 46

Arendt, Hannah, 12, 35, 37, 55

Aristotle, 67, 95, 112

Augustine, 19

Author: death of, 102-4; implied, 106, 115

Autism, 122n

Auto-affection, 100; and differance, 125n;and subjectivity, 77

Automatons, 35-37

Bachelard, Gaston, 25

Barthes, Roland, 107, 117n; on author, 102-5; on narrative history, 93-94

Beckett, Samuel, 1, 33, 67

Benveniste, Emile, 64, 70, 79, 102, 111; on language and the I, 65-68

Bergson, Henri, 19, 24

Bladerunner (film), 35-36

Body, the, 21, 39-40, 51, 110-12

Bourdieu, Pierre: on habitus, 20

Brooks, Peter, 32, 119

Bruner, Jerome, 116n

Bultmann, Rudolf, 30-31

Burrell, David, 60-62

Carr, David, 42-43, 120n

Cartesian subject, 1, 4, 34, 84-85

Casey, Edward, 117-18n

Celan, Paul, 53

Champigny, Robert, 120n

Chatman, Seymore, 120n

Children: and self-identity, 78-81; and signs, 66

Chronicle, 48

Collingwood, R. G., 95, 121n

Consciousness, 19, 24, 117n

Correspondence theory, 84

Creative adequation, 84, 107-8

Creativity, 113

Crites, Stephen, 8

Decombes, Vincent, 9-10, 116n

Déjà vu, 23-24

Derrida, Jacques, 3, 13; auto-affection, 77; on written signs, 74

Descartes, René, 34; the cogito, 97-100

Desire, 7, 18, 106-7

Dewart, Leslie, 116n

Dilthey, Wilhelm, 2-3, 9, 119n

Dreams, 24, 44, 46-48, 82, 99

Duration, 18

Ego development, 80-82

Emotion, 8, 106; and interpretation, 48-51; and understanding, 50-51; inarticulate, 50

Experience: and narrative, 43, 53-54; and time, 16-18

Expression: and intention, 74-76; and narrative, 7; and the preexpressed, 43

Feuerbach, Ludwig, 100

Fichte, J. G., 34

Fiction and history, 94-96

Foucault, Michel, 64, 104, 109, 113, 130n

Freedom, 113

Frege, Gottlob, 2

Freud, Sigmund, 85, 88

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 2, 9; effective history, 30-31

Gay, Peter, 92

Guilt, 58

Habermas, Jurgen, 9, 88, 97

Habitus, 20, 22, 38, 64

HAL (from Kubrick’s 2001), 70-71

Hardy, Barbara, 41, 48

Hauerwas, Stanley: on narrative and ethics, 60-62

Hearn, Vicki, 122-23n

Hegel, G. W. F., 34, 63, 100

Heidegger, Martin, 2, 9, 15, 47, 97, 101, 107

Herder, J. G., 2

Hermeneutics, 87; and memory, 28; circle, 3; importance of, 10; seeing as, 92-95, 109

History: and action, 40; and fiction, 94-96; narrative conception of, 91-97

Homer, 111

Hume, David, 21; on memory and identity, 26-28

Husserl, Edmund, 9, 13, 19, 23, 74, 100, 115n; on signs and expression, 73; on soliloquy, 73-77; on time, 18-21

I, 3-4, 14, 16, 31, 33-34, 38, 53, 65-70, 77-78, 82, 97-100, 105-8, 111

I-thou, 68

Ideality and meaning, 76

Identity, 37. See also Personal identity

Ideology, 62-64, 94-97

Imagination and memory, 25

Implied subject, 4, 7, 34, 86, 115

Ingarden, Roman, 109-10

Interpretation: and psychoanalysis, 88-91; and recollection, 45

Intertextuality, 103

Introspection, 5

Iterability, 73-74, 76, 100

Jakobson, Roman, 108

James, William, 18, 20, 44, 71-72

Jung, C. G., 91

Kant, Immanuel, 8, 16, 98-99

Keller, Helen, 69-70

Korsakoff’s syndrome, 87

Kristeva, Julia, 84-85

Lacan, Jacques, 65, 71, 84-86; the mirror stage, 80-81; on symbolic, real, imaginary, 79-82

Language: and narrative, 3; and philosophy, 2-3; misconceptions about, 65-66

Lebenswelt, 11, 20

Lingis, Alfonso, 77

Locke, John: on memory and identity, 24-27

Lyotard, Jean-François, 13, 62

MacIntyre, Alasdair, 12, 40-41, 58, 115-16n; on the self, 35

Madison, Gary, 132n

Marcel, Gabriel, 51

Marx, Karl, 100

Mead, G. H., 132n

Meaning, 76-77, 111; and lived time, 17; of past, 30-31

Melody, 18

Memory images, 23, 29

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 9, 15, 77, 78, 81, 110-12, 112; on time, 16-19; the cogito, 99-100

Meta-narrative, 62-63

Metaphor, 29, 85

Metaphysics, 9, 33-34, 115n

Mind, 1, 4, 82

Mind-body problem, 111-12

Mink, Louis: on narrative, 41-43, 94

Motives, 83-84

Narrative: and history, 91-97; and ideology, 62-64, 94, 96-97; and legitimation, 97; and meaning, 3, 48; and positivism, 96; and understanding, 3-4, 6-7, 33, 40-41; and values, 52-64; as meaning of prenarrative, 84; as moralizing, 59; as receptive and creative, 9, 44, 47; as unifying, 45-46; closure, 6, 39; defined, 39; the need for, 47, 53-54

Narrative truth, 89-91

Narrator and author, 39

Naturalism, 11, 17

Neurath’s ship, 37

Nietzsche, F., 2, 9, 14, 30, 34

Objectivity: in ethics, 61; of past, 28

Olafson, Frederick, 128n

Olney, James, 28

Orwell, George, 113

Parfit, Derek, 36

Passive synthesis, 19

Peirce, C. S., 9

Person, 35, 37, 67, 71, 86, 101, 111-12, 115n; and predication, 68; defined, 4; Locke on, 26

Personal identity, 6-7, 15, 18, 24-27, 32-38, 45-46, 110; and evaluation, 56-60; and memory, 21-30; and temporality, 18-19

Phenomenology, 9

Piaget, Jean, 45, 129-30

Plot, 39

Polkinghorne, Donald, 115

Practical reason, 40

Prenarrative level, 8-9, 39, 42, 47, 50, 69, 70, 76, 91, 110; and narrative, 84; and psychoanalysis, 82-86

Proust, Marcel, 7, 23-24, 38; and memory, 28-29

Psychoanalysis, 85-91

Quasi-narrative, 39, 42, 44-45, 82; definition of, 7-8

Ranke, L. von, 91

Rationality, 61-62

Recollection, 22-31; fragmentary nature of, 44

Reference, 10, 56, 92-93; of 1, 34

Relativism: in ethics, 61; and narrative truth, 90

Representative (memory), 23, 28, 53

Responsibility, 57

Retention, 23

Ricoeur, Paul, 1-2, 10, 53, 56, 62, 82; on history, 94-96; on mimesis, 43-44; on narrative, 40-45

Rushdie, Salman, 96

Russell, Bertrand, 36

Ryle, Gilbert, 72

Sachs, Nelly, 53

Sacks, Oliver: on narrative, 87-88

Santayana, George, 49; moral imagination, 30, 54-55

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 37, 42, 53, 56, 58, 125

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 3, 9, 68, 70, 74

Schafer, Roy, 86

Scheler, Max, 55-56

Schrag, Calvin, 67

Schutz, Alfred, 83, 119n

Self, 1, 5; and action, 5; and expression, 41; and reflexivity, 41; decentered, 5-6; defined, 4-6. See also Personal identity

Self-narration, 4, 7, 9, 105; and interpretation, 7, 11

Self-undertanding, 5, 38, 63-64

Sellers, Wilfred, 47

Semiotic body, 69, 112

Semiotic subject: defined, 101

Semiotics, 9-11, 107

Site of ascription, 106-7; defined, 71-72

Site of narration, 107, 111; defined, 71

Soliloquy, 72-76

Soul, 71

Speech: as intercorporeal, 110-11

Spence, Donald, 89-91

Structuralism, 101-2, 107

Subject: divided, 108; metaphysical, 5; speaking, 3, 13, 68-69, 79, 103, 105-8; of speech, 13, 68-69, 79, 102, 105-8; spoken, 13, 79, 105-8; tripartite, 105-7

Subjectivity, 19, 31, 68, 77, 107, 112

Symbols, 66, 79

Taylor, Charles, 12, 76, 108; on emotion, 48-52; on moral evaluation, 56-60

Temporality: and history, 7; Husserl on, 18; the now, 16-18; and part-whole relation, 16

Thought, 112

Tolstoy, Leo, 95

Transcendental: ego, 84, 100, 110, 117

Truth: and the past, 7, 31; as version, 38; narrative, 89-91

Unamuno, Miguel de, 21

Understanding, 3-4. See also Narrative

Veyne, Paul, 91, 94

Voice, 71-72; and auto-affection, 77

White, Hayden, 32, 63, 92-93, 96

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 2, 9