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Transcending the Duality of Body and Language:: Ricoeur's Notion of Narrative Identity

Annemie Halsema

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In this chapter, I demonstrate that Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology does not imply a simple opposition between embodiment as immanence and linguistic capacities that include the possibility of transcendence, but that human beings are hybrids, two-at-once. For Ricoeur's notion of narrative identity this means that it is not a facet of a person's identity, the story of our lives, but the identity of humans born into a world of language that precedes and envelops them.

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In this chapter, I demonstrate that Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology does not imply a simple opposition between embodiment as immanence and linguistic capacities that include the possibility of transcendence, but that human beings are hybrids, two-at-once. For Ricoeur's notion of narrative identity this means that it is not a facet of a person's identity, the story of our lives, but the identity of humans born into a world of language that precedes and envelops them.

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In this chapter, I demonstrate that Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology does not imply a simple opposition between embodiment as immanence and linguistic capacities that include the possibility of transcendence, but that human beings are hybrids, two-at-once. For Ricoeur's notion of narrative identity this means that it is not a facet of a person's identity, the story of our lives, but the identity of humans born into a world of language that precedes and envelops them.

Key concepts: Immanence, Identity (music), Narrative, Philosophy, Epistemology, Sociology, Linguistics, Aesthetics

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