'Are our lives enacted dramatic narratives? Did Kierkegaard understand human existence in these terms? Anyone grappling with these two questions will find in these excellent essays a remarkable catalogue of insights and arguments to be reckoned with in giving an answer. That is no small achievement.' Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame Explores contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death drawing on insights from Kierkegaard Are selves stories? Is each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves? Are selves and persons the same thing, or is each of us somehow both these things? What implications does the possibility of sudden death have for our ability to understand ourselves in narrative terms? Or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided, and possibly harmful? These questions have been much discussed in recent philosophy, including by scholars grappling with the work of the enigmatic Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). This collection brings together, for the first time between the covers of one book, leading figures from both the debate on Kierkegaard and narrative, and the wider discussion of philosophy and narrative identity, to explore pressing issues in selfhood and moral psychology. It advances important ongoing discussions and explores the light that, over 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems. John Lippitt is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University. Patrick Stokes is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University and a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. Cover image: Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, 1901 by Vilhelm Hammershøi. Image courtesy of Statens Museum for Kunst Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com