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Narrative Identity (narrative + identity)
Selected AbstractsPAUL RICOEUR AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS: NARRATIVE IDENTITY AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2009MICHAEL W. DeLASHMUTT This article attempts to reconcile the holistically understood and embodied philosophical anthropology indicated by Paul Ricoeur's concept of "narrative identity" with Christian personal eschatology, as realized in the bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Narrative identity resonates with spiritual autobiography in the Christian tradition,evinced here by a brief comparison with the confessed self of St Augustine of Hippo,and offers to theology a means of explaining identity in a way which: 1) places care for the other firmly within the construction of one's sense of self; 2) accounts for radical change over time and 3) hints at the possibility of the in-breaking of the infinite into the finite. In this article I will contend that narrative identity provides theology with an exemplary means of framing selfhood which is ultimately congruent with the orthodox Christian belief in the resurrection of the body. [source] Putting the Five-Factor Model Into Context: Evidence Linking Big Five Traits to Narrative IdentityJOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, Issue 5 2006Peter Raggatt ABSTRACT The study examined relationships between the Big Five personality traits and thematic content extracted from self-reports of life history data. One hundred and five "mature age" university students (M=30.1 years) completed the NEO PI-R trait measure, and the Personality Web Protocol. The protocol examines constituents of identity by asking participants to describe 24 key "attachments" from their life histories (significant events, people, places, objects, and possessions). Participants sorted these attachments into clusters and provided a self-descriptive label for each cluster (e.g., "adventurous self"). It was predicted that the thematic content of these cluster labels would be systematically related to Big Five trait scores (e.g., that labels referring to strength or positive emotions would be linked to Extraversion). The hypothesized links were obtained for each of the Big Five trait domains except Conscientiousness. Results are discussed with a view to broadening our understanding of the Five-Factor Model in relation to units of personality other than traits. [source] Narrative Identity and Meaning Making Across the Adult Lifespan: An IntroductionJOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, Issue 3 2004Jefferson A. Singer First page of article [source] PAUL RICOEUR AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS: NARRATIVE IDENTITY AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2009MICHAEL W. DeLASHMUTT This article attempts to reconcile the holistically understood and embodied philosophical anthropology indicated by Paul Ricoeur's concept of "narrative identity" with Christian personal eschatology, as realized in the bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Narrative identity resonates with spiritual autobiography in the Christian tradition,evinced here by a brief comparison with the confessed self of St Augustine of Hippo,and offers to theology a means of explaining identity in a way which: 1) places care for the other firmly within the construction of one's sense of self; 2) accounts for radical change over time and 3) hints at the possibility of the in-breaking of the infinite into the finite. In this article I will contend that narrative identity provides theology with an exemplary means of framing selfhood which is ultimately congruent with the orthodox Christian belief in the resurrection of the body. [source] Dress and Identity: A Turkish Case StudyJOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 7 2002Michael Humphreys This paper examines how dress can be implicated in contests regarding individual and organizational identities. Identities are understood as being constituted within discursive regimes, and to be subjectively available to people in the form of self,narratives. The pluralism and polyphony that characterize organizations means that collective self,narratives are likely to be fractured, contested and multi,layered. It is in this context that attire is an important object symbol that conveys information about the individual and collective self. Here we focus on aspects of dress, especially the Islamic headscarf, and its role in the dynamics of collective identity maintenance and challenge in one all,female Turkish university department. Our ethnographic approach yielded multiple, related and sometimes overlapping story lines centred on dress. These we have chosen to represent as a single though multi,voiced faculty narrative in order to facilitate analysis of what was a particularly rich symbolic milieu. The principal research contribution of this paper is as a discussion of participants' clothing in the constitution of individual and organizational narrative identities, and its importance for understanding the dynamics of identity conflicts. [source] The self and stories of Isak Dinesen: A dialogue on narrative identityCRITICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2001Heather Keenleyside First page of article [source] PAUL RICOEUR AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS: NARRATIVE IDENTITY AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2009MICHAEL W. DeLASHMUTT This article attempts to reconcile the holistically understood and embodied philosophical anthropology indicated by Paul Ricoeur's concept of "narrative identity" with Christian personal eschatology, as realized in the bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Narrative identity resonates with spiritual autobiography in the Christian tradition,evinced here by a brief comparison with the confessed self of St Augustine of Hippo,and offers to theology a means of explaining identity in a way which: 1) places care for the other firmly within the construction of one's sense of self; 2) accounts for radical change over time and 3) hints at the possibility of the in-breaking of the infinite into the finite. In this article I will contend that narrative identity provides theology with an exemplary means of framing selfhood which is ultimately congruent with the orthodox Christian belief in the resurrection of the body. [source] MASS-VACCINATION PROGRAMMES AND THE VALUE OF RESPECT FOR AUTONOMYBIOETHICS, Issue 5 2008LOTTE ASVELD ABSTRACT Respect for autonomy is problematic in relation to public health programmes such as vaccination, as the success of such programmes depends on widespread compliance. European countries have different policies for dealing with objectors to vaccination programmes. In some countries compliance is compulsory, while in others objectors are exempted or allowed to enter the programme under specific conditions. In this paper I argue that the objectors should not be treated as a homogenous group as is done in the above-mentioned policies. Objectors have different arguments for not participating in vaccination programmes. Considering the value of respect for autonomy, some but not all of these arguments need to be accommodated by authorities. The concept of ,narrative autonomy' provides criteria to distinguish between tenable and untenable claims to the right to refuse vaccination. Narrative autonomy understands autonomy as essentially linked to identity, as this provides the moral framework with which we assess our first-order preferences. The above-mentioned concept of autonomy is derived from the concept of narrative identity as described by Marya Schechtman. She suggests that the application of the Articulation Constraint and the Reality Constraint enables us to establish the validity of personal narratives. Additionally, form and content features of identity, as proposed by Anthony Laden, will be used as criteria to establish the compatibility of the defectors' arguments with shared scientific and political values. Such compatibility is essential to accommodate respect for autonomy in the context of public health. [source] A Subject After All , Rethinking the ,personalized narrator' of the self-reflexive first-person novels of O'Brien, Beckett and BanvilleORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 3 2003Lene Yding Pedersen This essay suggests a way of getting beyond the ,personalized' narrator traditionally seen as defining the first-person novel, without giving up completely the idea of an existential relationship between narrator and character. It explores the construction of a subject after all in three self-reflexive first-person novels (The Third Policeman, Malone Dies, Ghosts). These self-reflexive first-person novels cannot be explained within the existing framework of theories about the first-person novel as they question and partly undermine the notion of the personalized narrator as a more or less unproblematic entity. To see how this subject is constructed in these self-reflexive novels, this essay rethinks the ,experiencing I' and the ,narrating I' respectively in the light of Paul Ricoeur's concept of ,narrative identity' and Rimmon-Kenan's concept of ,access'. This leads to the notions of a ,storied subject' and a ,speaking subject'. Furthermore it argues that we need to take into consideration a third aspect of the subject, the ,linguistic subject' (theoretically based on Benveniste) in order to comprehend the subject of the self-reflexive first-person novel. [source] | ||||||||||