Kim Atkins is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong in Australia. She has a special interest in the work of Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, concerning issues of embodiment, selfhood and ethics. She is the editor of Self and Subjectivity. A Reader with Commentary (Blackwell) and co-editor, with Catriona Mackenzie, of Practical Identity and Narrative Agency (Routledge).

"Atkins' book is ambitious and wide-ranging, and contains much of interest not only to narrative theorists but also to anyone interested in theories of agency and moral psychology more generally." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Narrative Identity and Moral IdentityChapter 1: Locke, Hume and Kant on SelfhoodChapter 2: The Ambiguity of Embodiment: First- and Third-personal PerspectivesChapter 3: Intersubjectivity and the Second-personal PerspectiveChapter 4: The Embodied Self and Narrative IdentityChapter 5: Narrative Identity and the Ethical PerspectiveChapter 6: Practical Wisdom and Moral ExceptionalityChapter 7: Autonomy Competency and Narrative Competency NotesBibliographyIndex