Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Contributors xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. The Moments of a Life: On Some Similarities between Life and Literature 11
8. 2. Teleology, Narrative and Death 29
9. 3. Kierkegaard’s Platonic Teleology 46
10. 4. Narrative Holism and the Moment 63
11. 5. Kierkegaard’s Erotic Reduction and the Problem of Founding the Self 78
12. 6. Narrativity and Normativity 95
13. 7. The End in the Beginning: Eschatology in Kierkegaard’s Literary Criticism 113
14. 8. Forgiveness and the Rat Man: Kierkegaard, ‘Narrative Unity’ and ‘Wholeheartedness’ Revisited 126
15. 9. The Virtues of Ambivalence: Wholeheartedness as Existential Telos and the Unwillable Completion of Narravives 144
16. 10. Non-Narrative Protestant Goods: Protestant Ethics and Kierkegaardian Selfhood 161
17. 11. Narrativity, Aspect and Selfhood 169
18. 12. The Senses of an Ending 186
19. 13. The End? Kierkegaard’s Death and its Implications for Telling his Story 203
20. Bibliography 217
21. Index 229