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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - What is the self Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics and soap operas - a multitude of forces culled from fashion, modern myth, culture and recreation Or must we still convince ourselves, like Rousseau, that the self can never be tainted; that it is, above all else, irrefrangible Paul Ricoeur proposed that the self is formed within the narratives we tell of ourselves, that it is itself a form of narrative. But is this enough Could a self cohere in a multitude of potential narratives or find unity among its stories In this book, Declan Sheerin challenges the theory that the self is narrative alone or that concordance reigns over discordance in the self. Drawing upon the works of Gilles Deleuze, he proposes that deep to the sense of a unified, represented self is a more fundamental self of difference, a self that is more than merely coherent narrative.…