Time, Narrative, and History

"For description and defense of the narrative configurations of everyday life, and of the practical and social character of those narratives, there is no better treatment than Time, Narrative, and History... a clear, judicious, and truthful account, provocative from beginning to end. " Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology " ... a superior work of philosophy that tells a unique and insightful story about narrative." Quarterly Journal of Speech

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONI THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF EXPERIENCE AND ACTION1. From Real Time to Real Human Time2. The Temporality of Experience3. The Temporality of Action4. The Melodic Element of TimeII TEMPORALITY AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE1. Configuration and Narrative Structure2. Complex and Extended Experience and Action3. Narrative, Narrator, and Audience4. Some Concurring Views and Some ClarificationsIII THE SELF AND THE COHERENCE OF LIFE1. Coherence and Narrative Structure2. Self-Authorship and Authenticity: A Dispute3. Settling the Dispute over Authenticity4. Being in TimeIV TEMPORALITY AND HISTORICITY1. The Problem2. Husserl and Heidegger on Geschichtlichkeit3. Historicity and Narrative4. A New ProblemV FROM I TO WE1. In Search of the Trans-Individual Subject2. Moving beyond Phenomenology: Common Experience and Common Action3. Hegel's Dialectic of Recognition4. Group, Time, and NarrativeVI TIME, NARRATIVE, AND HISTORY1. Individual and Community in concreto2. Communal Narrative and Historical Time3. From Historical Time to Historiography4. Who Are "We"?INDEX