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Muddling Through: An Episodic Conversation on Self, Narrativity, Transience, and Other Pleasantries

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In your article “The unstoried life”, you criticize the idea that having a ‘storied life’ is necessary for a good life . Some authors would probably admit that having a storied life is perhaps not necessary in order to simply exist as an individual , singular being, but they would probably not accept that what you (in Selves) call a ‘whole human being ’ is possible without such (self-)narration.

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Strawson, G., Altobrando, A. (2018). Muddling Through: An Episodic Conversation on Self, Narrativity, Transience, and Other Pleasantries. In: Altobrando, A., Niikawa, T., Stone, R. (eds) The Realizations of the Self. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94700-6_8

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