Against the narrative self

In my thesis, I argue against the narrative conception of self, the idea that our self is \nnarrative in structure and that we live life as a narrative. First, I differentiate between the \nstrong and weak narrative view of self. I classify Dennett and Bruner’s account as the \nstrong claim, Schechtman and Cavarero’s as the weak narrative claim. Second, I reject \nboth the descriptive and normative narrativity thesis. I question the universality of a \nNarrative outlook. I argue that the artificial constructing of a narrative self is not conducive \nto self-understanding and that our choices of structuring it might be limiting. Last, I defend \nthe non-Narrative conception of self against the common objection that without a selfnarrative \none cannot be held accountable. I discuss Eichmann’s defense in Jerusalem along \nthe way to untangle the link between narrativity and accountability.