Habits and Narrative Agency.

Some habits are vital to who we are in that they shape both our self-perception and how we are seen by others. This is so, I argue, because there is a constitutive link between what I shall call 'identity-shaping habits' and narrative agency. Identity-shaping habits are paradigmatically acquired and...

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Publicado en:Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 677 - 687
Autor principal: Wagner, Nils-Frederic
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jul2021
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